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<font color="#000099">In the posting below, Joel Berson attributes to
me something I did not write. That's the part that I had retained from
Bill Mullins' posting, to which I was responding. I have not lived the
experience that Mullins reported.<br>
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Sali.<br>
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Joel S. Berson wrote:
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cite="mid6.2.3.4.2.20070225215153.02588960@ipostoffice.worldnet.att.net"
type="cite">At 2/25/2007 07:22 PM, Salikoko S. Mufwene wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite"> as often as not I've got to turn the box
around because the side
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facing me is Spanish rather than English.
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At least the boxes are not biased against one language versus another.
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Joel
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Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor
University of Chicago 773-702-8531; FAX 773-834-0924
Department of Linguistics
1010 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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