<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thank you Dr Gareth , </span></div><div><span>I got the point , but I confess you have created through your few weeks of monitoring very ' hot' debates , free of censorship . Thank you for this .</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Dr Mostari</span></div><div><span>Algeria </span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Gareth Price <gareth.price@duke.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, August 22, 2011 3:10
AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [lg policy] To Dr Mostari<br></font><br>Dr Motari,<br><br>If you actually read my post - and the subsequent posts - you will see<br>that these are *not* my observations, nor are they my views (and quite<br>diametrically opposed to them). The quote is from a piece in the<br>London Evening Standard (the link is here:<br><a href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23978523-ghetto-grammar-robs-the-young-of-a-proper-voice.do" target="_blank">http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23978523-ghetto-grammar-robs-the-young-of-a-proper-voice.do</a><br>)<br><br>Best,<br><br>Gareth<br><br><br>Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:00:48 -0700 (PDT)<br>From: mostari hind <<a ymailto="mailto:hmostari@yahoo.com" href="mailto:hmostari@yahoo.com">hmostari@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: [lg policy] to Gareth<br>To: Language Policy List <<a ymailto="mailto:lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu"
href="mailto:lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu">lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu</a>><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a ymailto="mailto:1313971248.54449.YahooMailNeo@web126111.mail.ne1.yahoo.com" href="mailto:1313971248.54449.YahooMailNeo@web126111.mail.ne1.yahoo.com">1313971248.54449.YahooMailNeo@web126111.mail.ne1.yahoo.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>Dear Gareth ,<br>Concerning your observation on youth speaking English in an<br>'inappropriate way' follwing the standards , I think that the role of<br>a linguist is to decribe the linguistic situations and not to<br>prescribe how people ought to speak . So, I understand your worries<br>but we have nothing to do because it is a part of the natural human<br>linguistic behaviour that we should observe , discuss and comment<br>without judging !<br><br>all the best<br>Dr Mostari<br>Algeria<br><br>-- <br>Dr. Gareth Price<br>Visiting Assistant
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