I'd better clarify, cris, in case the blunt expression at the end of my last
misleads, I'm not writing out of a sense of personal injury, I confess when
I first saw Chris Jones' posts I did feel rather as if I'd opened the front
door and someone had punched me in the face, but it's the issues about the
use of language in society I feel strongly about, and I certainly don't wish
anything I'm saying here to be thought ad hominem.
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
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----- Original Message -----
From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie
> but you did, cris, you did.
>
> And at that the same time you seem be perpetuating another slur: that I am
> some kind of flag-waver for a campaign against non-standard English when
you
> know perfectly well that nothing of the sort was being proposed by me or
any
> other on this issue.
>
> Recall, the issue that began all this were the set of directives from
> Dartington, and now Chris and you are seemingly suggesting that
> dissatisfaction with the kind of inert language they employ implies some
> kind of 'imperialist' act.
>
> Bollocks.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
> David Bircumshaw
>
> Leicester, England
>
> Home Page
>
> A Chide's Alphabet
>
> Painting Without Numbers
>
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "cris cheek" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 3:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Newbie
>
>
> > Hi David
> >
> > actually much as i liked the drive against standard, nay imperial,
English
> > in Chris Jones' post I didn't take on board that i was simultaneously
> > aye-ayeing to the slur of racism which seems bizarrely inappropriate
under
> > those circumstances.
> >
> > I'd be keen to hear quite how Chris thought it was applicable?
> >
> > love and love
> > cris
> >
>
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