Re: internet languages (English rules?)

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From: Edmund Grimley-Evans
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:00

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|> Even though I have explained it twice, you have completely missed
|> the point of what I am saying.
|> 
|> I am *not* saying that in language-specific situations a native
|> speaker may not sometimes have some advantage, I am replying to a
|> flat, blanket, unambiguous claim that a native speaker *always*
|> has "an enormous advantage".
|> 
|> Not every situation *is* a situation where language is relevant,
|> and not every situation where language is relevant is a situation
|> where a native speaker has an enormous advantage.

Quite right, Jon. If you're by yourself in the middle of the arctic
waste being attacked by a polar bear then you do *not* have "an
enormous advantage" as a native speaker of English.

Do you have any more clever and insightful comments for us?

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From: etg10@cl.cam.ac.uk (Edmund Grimley-Evans)
Subject: Re: internet languages (English rules?)
Date: 1996/01/19
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