Steve Hayes
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| Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 12:06 am
Post subject: Re: Mutual intelligibility |
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On 8 Nov 2004 05:48:53 GMT, CyberCypher <cybercypher@19-16-25-13-01-03.com>
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| Quote: | Steve Hayes wrote on 08 Nov 2004:
It was just that most recent examples seemed to be from Americans,
and that it was people from other places (usually the UK) who
tried to answer the questrions actually asked.
I realise that thread drift takes place, and that some points
raised in one post can spark off not-quite-related thoughts. But
when a person asks a fairly clear question, and people answer a
different questrion altogether, it seems that there is a breakdown
in comunication.
Just because the responses did not meet with your approval, Steve,
does not mean that there was "a breakdown in communication", merely a
dissonance between reality and your expectation.
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Approval?
What's it got to do with my "approval"?
An answer is either an answer to a question or it isn't. If I (or others
asking the questions) were in a position to "approve" or otherwise, we
wouldn't be asking the questions -- unless you think AUE is an exam room and
all questions are asked as a form of test.
--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
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