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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><font color="#000000"><span name="Roger Thijs"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span name="Tom Mc Rae">Tom Mc Rae</span> </font><span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com">thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com</a>><br>
</font></span></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L Languge Convention</font></font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal">
<div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Delancey Place quoted the following from a book..</font><div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-- saying "please" and "thank you" is not a universal<br>
custom -- there are societies such as the Inuit, where it is not the case. In fact<br>it first took hold in Western society during the commercial revolution of the sixteenth<br>and seventeenth centuries as evidence of the democratization of society -- our desire<br>
to view everyone as equals. Before that, saying please and thank you was a way to<br>show deference to a lord or master. "Thank you" derives from "think," and it originally<br>meant, "I will remember what you did for me"-- and "please" is short for "if you<br>
please," "if it pleases you to do this":</font></span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Having lived in West Africa for 11 years I would question this statement.</font></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The old Asante Twi language has "thank you" as 'Medassi" and "Thank you very much" as Medassi Pi."</font></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Further north in Ghana the early iron age Mossi Dagbaani tribes have "M'pooseeya" or "Ta Puhyia".</font></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">English speaking Ghanaians ranging from pidgin to excellent will use "Please" or "Pleesuh". I concede that some learned this at school</font></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">but it is also used by illiterates and appears to have evolved from their local word for please. </font></span></div>
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<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#888888">Tom Mc Rae<br>Brisbane Australia<br>Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolised.<br>
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