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In Reply to: If those are the worst....I wanna hang in your circle of friends!... posted by Mrs. Piggy on November 28, 2002 at 20:00:12:
When I moved here in '74, I had spent, without much interruption, the previous 7 years in a collegiate atmosphere*. I was asked by a "local" if I came from a foreign country because he didn't understand anything I said. "Yes, I speak a foreign language," I said to him...I didn't have the heart to finish and say that Standard American English was, and still is for the most part, a foreign language for anyone who was educated in the Chambersburg School District.The most frightening thing that I see/hear are teachers who speak more poorly than some of their students...all were educated in the school district that I live in and went to college 11 miles away at Shippensburg University, thereby ensuring they did not have "the college liberalization." I don't mean "being liberal" for those who know not of the idea, I speak of the many "outside" ideas that going to college brings to one...IF they don't attend a college where they stay close to Mommy and their highschool buddies and remain exactly who and where they were on highschool graduation day! One can learn that liberalization in a local college, but they have to submerge themselves in activities different from what they did in highschool...where the influence of their next door neighbor is diluted.
*I received a B.A. in English in 1996, my 9th college...I had switched majors so many times that the total of the credits I'd taken were more than the equivalent of 3 PhD's! Anyone top THAT hippie act!
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Follow Ups
- True story... - Muzikmike 20:27:00 11/28/02 (6)
- You beat me. - psgary 18:26:55 12/01/02 (1)
- Re: You beat me. - Mrs. Piggy 04:27:27 12/02/02 (0)
- Speaking of "Standard English"... - Bagsgroove 04:46:27 11/29/02 (0)
- The liberalization you refer to, I call "wordly"... - Mrs. Piggy 20:34:52 11/28/02 (2)
- Or maybe I should have said... - Muzikmike 20:54:05 11/28/02 (0)
- When I was speaking of the half of individuals I talked to in a day... - Muzikmike 20:43:52 11/28/02 (0)
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