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[Abdiel OAbdiel]

--- Malignd <malignd at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  Abdiel:
> 
> <<As I stated previously, none. No one speaks and/or
> writes SE. It's an ideal. In the USA the ideal is
> SAE.
> No one speaks or writes Standard American English. 
> No
> one.>>
> 
> That's patently false.  Typographical errors and
> occasional time-pressed errors aside, standard
> English
> is the daily written language in the New York Times,
> the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the LA
> Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, etc.,
> etc., all scholarly and semi-scholarly journals, the
> New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, etc. etc. etc.

    It is patently false only if your definition of
"standard english" is replaced by the definition I've
provided. There is no doubt that if we define
"standard english" as the english used by the NY Times
and by English newspapers around the globe that there
are people who write and read "standard english." No
kidding. 

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