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Jim wrote:
> All language is a series of cultural codes.  The English spoken by
Salinger 
> is, therefore, just a shade different than my English.  

... to illustrate this point, in Australia (and England?) we always say
`different to' rather than `different than' which sound bizzare and
illogical to us but is always used by Americans. The scary thing is, the
more you look at the English language, the more bizzare and illogical it
*all* becomes. (:

Camille
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