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[Francoise Rosset]

Lilya Kaganovsky's comment about Henry Higgins made me realize how
snippy my posting sounded:

>Sure, some of the restrictions on "proper" usage smack of politico-
>linguistic imperialism; they can also be distinctions of social class.
>Some people are in fact poorly educated.
Perhaps I should have used "socio-economic class." - What I really
meant was that the poor usually get the worse schools; certainly
not that language/spelling/grammar idiosyncracies should mark any
one as a "low" or "high" class person. Sorry if I implied that ...

-FR


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Wheaton College                           e-mail: frosset at wheatonma.edu
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