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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 10 April 2007 - Volume 04</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_edsells@cogeco.ca" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ed Alexander <<a href="mailto:edsells@cogeco.ca">edsells@cogeco.ca
</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "History" 2007.04.10 (01) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">At 10:42 AM 04/10/07 -0700, Sandy Fleming wrote:<br>>I used to have a language teacher who believed that Finnish and English<br>>were closely related - and she was Finnish and had lived in England for
<br>>years so spoke both languages with perfect fluency.<br><br>Oh, never mind! My wife, who is a high school English teacher, had to<br>leave the staff room in disgust when two of her colleagues got into a<br>discussion about why other people didn't speak English the way they did, as
<br>if their way of speaking was somehow degenerate. She was also given the<br>job one year of picking students to do the Hail Mary over the PA system<br>each morning. Since there are some many different nations represented at
<br>her school, she thought it a good idea to have it done in the different<br>national languages. One morning, she had the Serbian student do it. Later<br>that day, a few of the Croatian students came up to her and said that they
<br>knew the language was Croatian, but it sounded a bit funny. When she told<br>them that a Serbian had done it, they said that was impossible, because<br>there are no Serbian Catholics.<br><br>>I think maybe linguistics is a like astronomy in one way - it's one of
<br>>the few sciences where amateurs can still make important contributions.<br>>Unfortunately there are at least two types of amateurs, those who<br>>understand the subject, and those who don't (but go ahead anyway!).
<br><br>Well, we've also found from time to time that there are two types of<br>professionals. Those who know what they're talking about and those who<br>don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.<br><br>
>And I see you've got Arthur started now :)<br><br>Good. I think it's important that no one take themselves too seriously<br>here, or anywhere. Humour is good not only for healing, but for gentle<br>correction as well.
<br></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg"><br>Ed Alexander<br></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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