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Hi,

Refer to posting : JAREA@UKCC.UKY.EDU, University of Kentucky item # 8072)

>There is an irony here I shall not dwell on when a foreigner who cannot
>spell 'their' or 'columns', who doesn't know how to represent possessives,
>whose control of definiteness (and thus the article), tries to preach
>"correct" English to native speakers!  He need not have told us that he
>is ready to, "accept any flaws," in his argument.  Since his post is full
>of flaws, we shall assume he accepts them, although we do not.  Perhaps
>he, and others who propound "correct" English need to be reminded that
>the should consult a good English grammar (say that of Sir Randolph Quirk)
 ^^^
 Here is a masterpiece. A sentence construction as shown to us by a perfect 
native English speaker and a English guru!!.:-) 
(Of course sarcasm intended !!).

I was not pontificating as you are !! As I mentioned in the article I did not 
intend to criticize Americans or American English. It is no denying the
fact that in the last 100 years America has been one of the greatest success
stories in the World. Its a great country and one with the greatest 
intellectual talent (native or migrated) in the world. Xenophobic predators 
like you who prowl the world of BBs such as sci-lang with flame-guns 
made no contributions to this success. One can find mistakes in every 
posting if one had the time and the inclination  to do so. You seem to 
have both.

I also apologize to people (Especially Americans)  who may have been 
offended but the intent of the article was not to criticize Americans or
American English but usage of English, American or otherwise. American 
English has its place and fortunately I do not see these despicable 
usages in Text books. I would like to thank others who responded
with informative and constructive criticism or appreciation of my
viewpoint. I am not an authority on English and I do not propound
any theories. By the way I will run a spell checker next time. 


Thanks 
Kartik