From: fenton@scs.carleton.ca (Greg Fenton)
Subject: Re: California is NOT representative of the US as a whole
Keywords: language
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 08:04:05 GMT

In article <2JAN199315271515@elroy.uh.edu> st1ns@elroy.uh.edu (Ault, Russell W.) writes:
>In article <i3558.725901920@newsie>, i3558@newsie.dc.dk (Soren Michael Roug) writes...
>>I seems to me that this discussion is mostly, if not completely carried
>>out by americans. My advice to you is that if you want to improve your
>>english language then learn the King's english, not those barbarian dialects
>>the yanks choose to utter. It is my understanding that the yanks find a
>>properly spoken UK accent "cute". Well, I won't call myself an expert, but
>>I have been to USA several times, and some of those wordings one get to
>>hear notably in California make my toes curl. And behold; In some restaurants
>>they don't give people utensils to eat with.
>>-- 
>
>Only a Californian would call California a part of the civilised world.  The 
>rest of us know that not everything "edible" is palatable, and that inventing 
>a new (and illogical) usage for an existing word or phrase (or an equally 
>illogical construction for an existing usage) is neither a profitable activity
>nor one which is likely to increase the degree to which one is making himself
>understood.  I dread the prospect of having to visit California.  For all 
>their slurred and slang-infested modes of speech, I prefer talking to someone
>from southern Louisiana than a vacuocephalic Californian.  (I sometimes wonder,
>though, if that designation is not redundant?)
>
>The worst part of the situation is that the disease (Californitis?) seems to
>be spreading.  It has even shown up in such isolated places as Cut & Shoot, 
>Texas (a real place, just north of Houston), much to the dismay of many.  If
>it continues, I may have to establish a new detoxification program to deal
>with the afflicted, something along the lines of a Californiacs Anonymous,
>with classes in Getting On With It, Differentiating Between Gratuitous
>Criticism and Actual Insult, and Eating Without Analysis.  I welcome any
>suggestions for additional items to add to the curriculum, and there is 
>some urgency involved since there is a small danger that I may have to move
>to California this year.  Fortunately, I've already been immunized.  And
>even more important, I have discovered that there are still enclaves of the
>unafflicted even in the L.A. basin, although they often adopt the outward
>appearance of the multitudes as protective coloration.  
>
>Sadly, I doubt that I will be able to pass as a Californian myself at any
>time in the near future.  I refuse to wear clothes that do not fit properly,
>I don't wear footwear that is designed to be used without socks, I loathe
>beaches, I keep my skin untanned and my hair unbleached, and my voice is 
>at least two octaves too low.  
>
>I guess I'll just have to get my groceries in Nevada.
>  

	Ya, whatever, buddy. California has no monopoly on lack of couth and    chronic inability to express themselves in English. Actually the entire USA     (believing collectively that there is nothing of interest outside a 50-kilometre radius of their own abodes) show a stunning ignorance of not only how to spell, but other trivial things such as which way is up on my flag! 

	Rule 1) If it's not in the Oxford Dictionary, it isn;t English.

	        Some examples: nite, lite, color, neighbor, meter; should be...
		               night, light, colour, neighbour, metre; 
		
	Rule 2) This most important rule states that I.Q. is a simple function..                it is directly proportional to the latitude at which one resides

	That having been said, I think I'll hitch up the dogs (they're waiting for me outside the igloo...and they can't wait for the seal hunt.)

trev

a.k.a. tefenton@108.watstar.uwaterloo.ca

From: susan@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Susan Frontczak)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:59:07 GMT
Subject: Dance Database?
Organization: HP SESD, Fort Collins, CO