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Subject: Re: OT: Language etc. Was
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On 13/07/2024 9:58 pm, Phil Carmody wrote:
> ~misfit~ <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 11/07/2024 9:06 am, Dumas Walker wrote:
>>>> As a member of the last UK generation to have gone to a Grammar School
>>>> (11+ anyone?) I'm trying to be more Zen about American 'English' but
>>>> it's a struggle. Especially as a huge number of non-English speakers are
>>>> learning 'English' from American media content.
>>>
>>> As an American, that last bit also concerns me, especially if it is social
>>> media content.
>>
>> Yeah, that's a big thing that's happening - and a huge can of worms
>> that doesn't just affect language. (For instance right wing nutters
>> here in New Zealand wear MAGA caps etc. <shakes head in despair>)
> 
> Make Australia Great Again?

LOL, close.
-- 
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification 
in the DSM"
David Melville.