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Milky Posted 19 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Setting one's own standards.

0Regarding Standard English forms (American, British, Indian Nigerian, etc.), each group of people is at liberty to set its own standards, create its own idioms, and so on, with confidence and without apology. 02br
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00(Adapted from a statement by Chinua Acebe, 1965.)0-
  

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0 [ sarcasm ]02br 00No, I think they have to apologize first. 02br 00[ /sarcasm ] 0-

— Marvin A.

  • 0 [ sarcasm ]02br 00No, I think they have to apologize first.
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00No, I think they have to apologize first. Then they're free to do whatever they please.02br
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01cite10Marvin A.12cite10[ sarcasm ] No, I think they have to apologize first. Then they're free to do whatever they please. [ /sarcasm ]12blockquote
10Should they apologise directly to you, Marv?02br
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01cite10Marvin A.12cite10[ sarcasm ] ...Then they're free... [ /sarcasm ]12blockquote
10Free? FREE? Can't we find a way to extract some payment from them? In return, we could host a central register here on English Forums.0-
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0 >> Marvin A. wrote:02br
00[ sarcasm ] ...Then they're free... [ /sarcasm ]02br
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00Yeah, Free 01b00after02b00 they pay to apologize. 0-
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0 OOOooo, every step closer to global domination is an exciting one. (Users - especially the ones who are paying - should feel free to replace the arbitrary 'global' with any other word of their choosing. 'Kitchen', ' Universal', etc., are perfectly acceptable.)0-
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