Re: unfortunately, more

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Here in Canada, we (...or at least those of us who try to THINK about what 
what we say before we say it, let alone before we WRITE it....) usually say
different FROM....  (And EVERYTHING that Americans say and do is basically
bizarre and illogical....  Just take a bananafish swim in DAWSON's SLOUGH
(of despond?) and then ask yourself why the whole country had a collective
nervous breakdown over Billy and Monica....  Or try to understand the logic
of the constitutional "right to bear arms" in the light of all the drive-by
slayings that clutter the front pages of otherwise respectable newspapers
around the world....

Cheers, 


Paul


>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. (:
>
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