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Subject: 
Language (was: Re: TLG and "Seeding")
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Date: 
Fri, 2 Mar 2001 18:05:09 GMT
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In article <3A9FD68F.7DE1@mindspring.com>,
Frank Filz  <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote:
For a slight hint, there's a song which makes fun of the fact that US
English isn't necessarily understandable from one part of the US to
another...

In fact, I've been known to comment that we drawl our Rs around here to
make up for the fact that y'all don't say yours. :)

-JDF
--
J.D. Forinash                                     ,-.
foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu                            ( <
The more you learn, the better your luck gets.    `-'



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  Re: TLG and "Seeding"
 
(...) Yea, Todd's done a pretty good job of adapting and learning to "speak the language very well" (1) (1) Extremely obscure Boston (well, actually Cambridge, got to get your cities straight, can't have hoity toity folks from certain universities (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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