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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 12:54:58 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Geekefaction
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              20 Aug 1992 15:00:00 EST from <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>

On Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:00:00 EST Blue eyes cryin' in the rain said:
>	OTOH, everywhere I go, university libraries contain people who look
>	like Dan or Marty.  You know the <type> -- dark hair with a good bit of

   oh....you mean dirty old men....sorta like Neal....who looks generally
like dan and marty too.

>	gray, full beard, not as svelte as he once was...  Greg Finnegan here

  except NOT quite true of dan....who is the sveltest he's ever been...
and getting svelter...so to speak.

dan
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:58:00 GMT
From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      re: Next Year's Event
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>a list from memory of suggested sites -- surely not comprehensive,   t
>jus what I remember:

>SITE                        LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
>_____                      _____________________

>Los Angeles               Emily *
>Starkville                Natalie, of course
>Stockholm                 Torkel             " If this is the final
>Ireland                   Bill Sjostrom        choice, I would be
Tulsa                     Evelyn               happy to station myself
>Asheville/Boone/          Gilbert              in Memphis for a   daysfew
  Cullowhee                                       and introduce visitors
>Tokyo                     Akio                 to that city's     mmermidsu
>San Antonio               TENET                charms before      ngferryi
                                                    them to Oktibbeha Co.
                                                          --brad
>        *Hmmmm, three great Amtrak trains
>         serve LA -- the Desert Wind, Sunset
>         Limited, and Southwest Chief....


Don't forget Jenna's offer of the Cole-Steele ranch in Northern
California!

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 05:01:01 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject: Re: WHTMIQR13
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	 Thanks for the entertaining travelogue.

Oh shit - was it entertaining? - i saw three screensful of one paragraph
without breaks, and automatically deleted it as I do all such postings.
Don't tell me the form didn't betray the content for once!

G
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:49:35 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Swinging for the fence
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This is do-or-die week for the Republicans, folks, and I am ashamed to say that
I'm so disgusted and *pissed off* by they way the term "family values" has been
bandied around that I'm almost ready to throw in with the Democrats, not
because I really believe they'll do any of the things the Republicans are
warning us against, but because I need to cast a vote that says "Le Pig don't
play that."

Buchanan warns us that the Democrats want to legalize same-sex marriages. Well,
even if Bill Clinton gave a fig about that, which he doesn't, is anyone
*naieve* enough to believe that a Democrat administration would make same-sex
marriages the law of the land? Not bloody likely. And how are a couple guys
filing a joint Form 1040 supposed to threaten the integrity of the neighbors'
family next door. Don't make me laugh.

Abortion: who needs it? Hah! As if those lamers in Congress would ever get
behind a Constitutional Amendment extending equal protection to a fetus...they
can't even decide whether to cut capital gains or not. Does anyone believe that
Democrats or Republicans can stop a desperate woman from seeking out help? And
what EES it, mahn: June Cleaver isn't going to yank off her apron and start
carrying a NARAL placard if Clinton gets in office. The same bunch of folks is
gonna be outside those clinics hassling the clientele, while the same other
bunch is fighting the mob to hustle a scared young woman with a windbreaker
over her head safely through the door. The same families that were going to
break up, will, no matter who wins in November. The same that have their stuff
together will continue to keep it together after the election.

These are, as usual, my own opinions--who else would have them anyway. And no,
I'm not open to discussion.

<OINK>
-abh
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: Weird
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 11:03:48 GMT


I considered multi-focals, too -- but as a historian, I read a lot of
microfilm (UGH! I hate it), and the best projectors have screens about a
foot off the table -- so I have to look up through my eyebrows, and that
for a "middle-distance" focus... so when the ophthalmologist suggests
Xfocals, I ask him where he'll put the distance part... I need the reading
lenses both at the top and at the bottom, and *cannot* read through the
distance part.  Then, too, the street signs here in Florida are hung 'way
up over the intersections (white on green, against the *very* bright sky),
or as I found in Coral Gables, painted on rocks placed oh so subtly in the
corner of peoples' lawns.  

--bayla
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 08:21:45 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: chicken shit
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> And now for my deux centimes--Parisians are notoriously rude--this I heard
> *first* from other Frenchmen and had substantiated when I visited myself.
> I speak fluent french...well, I'm 2 years outta constant practice.  When I
> initally visited Paris, my American accent was noticeable...after a year of

I thought this was leading to a possible explanation.  I've heard that
Parisians are ruder to people who speak fluent French than they are to
people like me -- people they feel sorry for because of the obvious
linguistic struggle.  But then I saw that Anne's example did not support
that explanation.

> study in Bordeaux, I spoke without an identifying accent (people assumed I
> was Canadian, German, Scandinavian, never American).  At the end of my stay
> in BX I went to visit a friend in Paris--the Parisians were less rude than
> the first time--which I attribute to the fact that they couldn't
> immediately identify where I was from to snub me.

Maybe it helps that French people usually think I'm German.  But why would
that help?  They almost always guess me as (1) German, (2) English, (3) they
either give up or guess North American -- excluding French Canadian.

   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     who logged off while ago to get work done...  but then had to log
     back on to check library catalogue -- which can be checked without
     going all the way into Ra, of course, but my fingers forgot...
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From: jwagner@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Judith O Wagner)
Subject: Re: Adam, List Honey
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:08:04 GMT

In article <0F9F5276415FA16AD6@cc.weber.edu> BZ <TSBZALESKI@CC.WEBER.EDU> writes:
>It is time I spoke up, since Adam is leaving us and this will be my last
>chance to <sing his praises> (along with everyone else).
>
>Betty Z. (an appreciative semi-lurker)

Me too.  Adam, you sent me a lovely note when I was feeling wretched
and I greatly appreciated it.  Thanks.

2Judith who is no longer feeling puny, due in part to kind words-lers

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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 09:16:08 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      re: good evening to you all
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              16 Aug 1992 08:36:56 EDT from
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On Sun, 16 Aug 1992 08:36:56 EDT Karen Kay said:
>> Gee, hope that makes it out on video soon so i can see it.
>
>Was this supposed to be sarcasm?  It's been out on video for a
>kazillion years.
>
   nope....guess it was just ignorance....its one i haven't seen, obviously,
and just hadn't known.  gail picks up mosta the movies, and since she saw
it in theater.....she goes to about ten times more movies in theaters than
i do....usually with one girlfriend or another.

dan
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:41:33 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The D-words
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Natalie, what was the title of your dissertation?
Doris (a curious English teacher who never wrote one)
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From: jthomas@well.sf.ca.us (Jim Thomas)
Subject: Re: Father of The Bride
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 03:29:46 GMT



(Postmaster - please deliver this to Don Moore at his forwarded address)

>Belinda asks "Mr. Moore (she's polite) would you be a little teary-eyed at
>Dawn's wedding (hopefully a number of years from now!)?  I replied, maybe
>just a little.  Dawn, with her laughing, loving teasing style chimes in -
>"He'll cry like a baby"  You know, she's probably right.

Interesting observation. Silly aside: My mom's a world-class "wear the
emotions on the sleave, cry whenever possible" type. My dad's the
emotional man of steel. At my sister's wedding, guess which one cried??

Jim (and it wasn't my mother) Thomas
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:51:26 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gender
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              17 Aug 1992 17:42:51 EDT from <ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

On Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:42:51 EDT Elaine M Brennan said:
>>> Elaine, wearer of bright red plastic glasses
>>
>>But no bimbo.
>>
>damn, and I was trying so hard, too !
>
>Elaine


Welllllll.....what about the last Sunday in June in San Francisco, my dear?
When you did NOT make it to the Thai One On Dinner that the other wordslers
attended.   Hmmmmmmm?????

      dan
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 17:58:58 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: the ugly american syndrome.
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Jenna,
 This may have been described/defined on the list before, and if so
forgive my asking again - but what is Vegimite?  When we were in England
this summer our group included 3 Australians. On a couple of occasions I
noticed that one had a can with "Vegimite" written on it. I would have
asked him what it was, but never thought of it when I was around him.
Doris
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From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Cellular Phones 
Distribution: world
Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:20:41 +0000


In article <9208191107.AA10302@Ra.MsState.Edu> maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU writes:
>>   Sure you do! Your pineal gland is in great shape.
>I knew there was some reason I refused to use trifocals at computer!
>I'm being kind to potential pineal recipients.

Recipients?  You mean addicts?

That torkel gut must be one _heavy_ doper...
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 09:18:37 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      RE: The Evidence
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On Fri, 21 Aug 1992, MGARBER@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU wrote:
>
> my mother is a member of this list

Oh, good...do we get to guess?  And, by the way, welcome.
ndh (whose *daughter* is a member of this list)
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 09:49:37 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Not being taken for an American
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              13 Aug 92 20:46:26 -0400. <9208140150.AA02075@sics.se>

 >Has any American ever been taken for an American abroad?

  Ahem. They are usually not all that difficult to identify.
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 08:45:53 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: List wars
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>Is that "Don't mind Michael" or "Don't mind, Michael."  ???

The first choice, as in "Don't pay any attention to Michael."

-abh
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From: jthomas@well.sf.ca.us (Jim Thomas)
Subject: Re: Cages...
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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 04:06:24 GMT


Anne Haycock inquiries:

>And a better, effective alternative is...

1) Decriminalizing many current offenses (eg, drugs, prostitution,
   etc)
2) Alternative sentencing, esp. for non-violent offenses (eg, drugs,
   prostitution)
3) Shift away from punitive to more rehabilitative ideology
4) return to indeterminate sentencing for some crimes
5) More diversion program
6) Bootcamp, home incarceration, restitution camps
7) Tailoring sentencing to the offender and offense

Just for starters. It requires depoliticizing crime and less
game-playing by politicians who are, on one hand, afraid to be
defined as soft on crime, and on the other, have no realistic
strategy for dealing with it. Prison rates increase, and so does
crime. The US is the worlds leading incarcerator.

I'm pleased that some people are in prison and will stay there a long
time. Others, however, do not belong in prison. The current trend in the
US is to criminalize objectionable behaviors, impose longer sentences
without evidence that they reduce crime or change behavior, or to
differentiate between the kinds of crimes for which prison is appropriate
and for which it is not. "One size fits all."

You may or may not agree with me, but it's your tax dollars that pay for
the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of the current "lock 'em all up" mood.

Jim (There's no such thing as an "easy time" prison) Thomas
From: aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU (Absolut Bandwidth)
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Date: 20 Aug 92 14:18:57 GMT
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>to women.  They just don't fit.  So there, all you sweet females
>out there.


Giggles, no matter how charmingly you put it, I am a geek. But not a nerd. Too
well-socialized for that.

Geeks are just people with abnormal desires regarding high technology,
particularly computing equipment and software.

-abh
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 03:37:40 +0200
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: List Wars, The Saga
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	Of course, in saying this, i guess that means i can't post the exchange
	between you and tim, that he forwarded to me, for laughs.

No, but you can mail it to us :-)

G
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:52:38 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Is Elaine a Bimbo??
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              17 Aug 1992 17:54:36 EDT from
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On Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:54:36 EDT Karen Kay said:
>> When you did NOT make it to the Thai One On Dinner that the other wordslers
>> attended.   Hmmmmmmm?????
>>       dan
>
>Well, I guess I didn't realize that Elaine was *trying* to be a
>bimbo.  I still don't see it--she's too responsible!:)  About the
>missed dinner, Dan, that might make her a bimbo if a) she did that
>often or b) it was a fling, but neither are the case.
>
   Are you SURE?  I don't know about A.   And not sure about B....but
we shall wait and see.  It is possibel to be a nonbimbo and still have
a fling, isn't it.   and its surely possible to be a Catholic Woman and
have a fling...unless, of course, you are a nun....and even then?

dan
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 22:27:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: gonadological oppression
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> A man who calls himself a feminist--it's like me going around saying
> I'm Japanese.  This is the same issue as being taken for a foreigner--
>
> Karen
> who has now been up for longer than she was asleep. damned neighbors.

Seems like this topic is now beaten to death, but this statement really
bothers me.  This analogy holds up only if <one> accepts that being
a feminist == being female.  I consider a feminist to be a person who
believes that women *are* equal to men and whose actions are grounded
in that belief.
--ggs (suspecting that this may be  a wee bit simplistic, but hoping
       that his sincerity will be appreciated....)
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X-Prolog:     University Computing Services/Student Data Systems
X-Prolog:     University of South Florida
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:37:37 GMT
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From:         "n Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: WHTMIQR13

*** Resending note of 08/17/92 16:42





>.............we thought you were a gentleman...
              --
What you mean we, white woman?  oh, subject of short morning poem:-)
Nethead, aka the Ruth Hanschka, hath enscribed herein, a message
	ap290 and ak743 , both of the Cleveland Freenet                             He
 I'm qualified for public office ...I've been to IHOP!!Don, trying to fix produ

 show from Texas on TV......
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 08:31:21 EDT
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Comments:     Originally-From: "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
From:         GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject: Re: 1/0

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
between 0 and O -- the one I almost never use.  I just double-checked
the syllabi sitting on my desk right now.  Yep.  September 30 says
September 3O.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
You sure they don't distinguish between a rounded o and a squared o?
as in 0 and O.

most do.

JAG
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:27:54 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The newest Diffily
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I called Bernard a few minutes ago to tell him about his namesake.  He
wasn't surprised at all.  He said that Anne told him a long time ago.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 12:38:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Today's Trivia
Comments: To: "Ruth M. Hanschka" <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
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> Chances are they'll catch the thief for something else - he's pretty stupid.
> A house full of electronics [computer, stereo, VCR...] and he takes some
> glorified cap guns that won't fire caps!  Giggles, is this guy related to
> you - he liked <expensive> <useless> <toys>?
>
> --
> It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead

Sounds like Horace, my third cousin twice removed.  He once stole a
set of chrome plated rachet wrenches for a '57 Edsel from my basement,
leaving behind two 4-head vcr's and a brand new 45-rpm record player
worth roughly $37.95 on the flea-market circuit at the time.  Horace
disappeared several months afterward and was last seen sitting under
a palm tree on Isla Mujeres yelling <fuera fuera> at a pack of
<beagles> passing by in search of food.  Horace is *not* bright.
--ggs
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:40:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Hungry Beagles
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> >> -Mka
> >
> >*Somebody*'s about to get beat up and thrown to the beagles.
> >Woof woof gobble gobble slurp slurp burp.
> >--ggs (get off get off *I* want to be on top.....)
> >
>
> My bones are aching in anticipation.
>
> -Mka

Of what?  Or which?  Getting beat up, getting thrown to the beagles,
or not being on top?
--ggs (getting suggestive now late in the day....)
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: The sole of a new machine
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 00:54:42 GMT


In a previous article, maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU ("Natalie Maynor") says:

>> that using vi is like banging your head against the keyboard.  Others
>I like vi.
	To quote Marcy, you're weird, sir.  You can keep vi, for preference
in a nice deep hole some place in New Mexico.:-)If the arrow keys don't
work, I don't use it.....<ecch>  Too much DECVAX in my blood....
>
>That's right!  I saved all that info somewhere in my Ra-Stuff/ directory
>to look at when I had time.  Then I forgot...
How much memory do they give you down there?  Besides not enough?
-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
fighting for truth, justice and static-free lines
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:24:08 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Phonology and tv
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> Interesting.  Because mass media is named as a major propagator of--
> my mind went blank.  Modern Standard Chinese.  Ditto for the decline

Putonghua?  That's a bit different from what I was talking about since
it's basically a different language, the use of which is being encouraged
by the government.  And isn't it true that local pronunciations of
Putonghua are not considered a real problem?

> in use of dialects by young people in Japan.

I don't know much of anything about Japanese dialects.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:30:25 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Phonology and tv
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> by the government.  And isn't it true that local pronunciations of
> Putonghua are not considered a real problem?

Sorry about the ambiguity.  By "not considered a real problem" I meant
isn't it considered acceptable to speak Putonghua with a local accent.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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