Based on the responses to my flip "Anglophile" post, I get the
impression that everyone seems to think I'm a pretentious Brit who
resents the co-option of my culture. I'm actually a pretentious American
who resents other Americans for whatever retarded reason I can think of,
especially for being anglophiles, or even worse francophiles.
If I had a pound note for every time I had to debunk an American's false
impression that there was no such thing as an uncool person in England,
that nobody's ever even heard of Bruce Springsteen in London, that
British kids don't like Mariah Carey or Celine Dion or Michael Bolton -
well, I'd be one rich bloke!
I'll admit that most music I like these days seems to come from England,
but that's not reason enough to change my bloody vocabulary! (oops!)
Cheerio!
-CF
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hillie [SMTP:buh@clark.net]
>Sent: Monday, January 27, 1997 6:25 PM
>To: IDM
>Subject: Re: (idm) Anglophiles
>
>On 27-Jan-97, Chris Fahey wrote:
>>I just wanna say how funny it is that so many Americans on this list use
>>British slang.
>
>Are you British?
>
>I believe that "wanna" is American slang, as we americans like to be lazy
>speakers and crunch words together :)
>
>--
>Hillie aka Aurafix / PHD ja DAMONES
>
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