"English--the richest, most expressive language in the world"

[Harold Schiffman]

Got it, Ron! You're numero uno!

Hal

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Ronald Kephart <rkephart at unf.edu> wrote:

> My all-time favorite, from my own fieldwork:
>
> "Speaking [English Creole] all your life makes your brain cells
> deteriorate."
>     ---A white North American living on Carriacou, Grenada; 1979.
>
> Ron
>
>
> On 3/5/08 1:13 PM, "Harold Schiffman" <haroldfs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Don and all:
>
> If you send me these *short *stereotypes, I'll compile them and put them
> on the language policy page.
>
>
>


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Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
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