From Newsgroup: alt.english.usage
"Peter T. Daniels" <
grammatim@verizon.net> wrote:
On Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 7:56:55 PM UTC-4, Robert Bannister wrote:
All the Japanese people I have ever had a conversation with spoke BrE to some extent. I don't doubt they spoke Japanese to each other. The only non-native English speakers I have met who spoke what they thought was
AmE were Germans and a few Russians.
Jp ppl speaking BrE was maybe true at one point?
7th, 8th graders were taught to say:
Have you a ... ?
and pronounce Sedule.
At the meeting in Munich, the only speakers with British accents were the oldest participants. I asked some of the AmE-accented people (on top of their German accents of course) about that and they hadn't really noticed.
CsiPh doesn't recognize or carry Alt.English.Usage
https://newsgrouper.org/rec.puzzles
https://csiph.com/group/rec.puzzles
------- Both these sites let me switch easily between views.
(raw source (fixed-width font), etc. )
They are both great, with some minor differences...
e.g.-- this one (CsiPh) doesn't let me do Rot13 easily?
CsiPh seems faster.--(reminds me of MSDOS) (its text-Gui)
I like how it (CsiPh) preserves my white spaces
(indentations) by default
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vir bonus dicendi peritus
------- Today I looked for cognates of peritus
in English and French and found that....
(peril, pirate)
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