Bad Jokes & bad schools

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Paul asks for opinions:

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>> From: MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu
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>> The three names you link together (headmaster, dean of students and 
>> head of the English dept?  Moe Larry and Curly?) are very different writers
>and thinkers 
>> with very different aims. 
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>Accepting John's quite valid point, these guys DO have
>an important common denominator.  They're all French,
>n'est pas, and  therefore hard for English-speakers to
>understand. Translation is not adequate I've been told.
>Any opinions?
>					P.

Granting the fiendish difficulty of reading these guys; in no way claiming to have done so
(even in translation) conclusively or even adequately.  
The French might opine that we could solve the problem tout suite simply by declaring 
French to be the Standard English Language. 

john m