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Sashadroogie



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 1:32 pm    Post subject: Language wars Reply with quote

I think this is quite a silly episode...

http://www.bbc.com/news/31989874


Thoughts?
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buravirgil



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Location: Jiangxi Province, China

PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 2:31 pm    Post subject: Re: Language wars Reply with quote

Sashadroogie wrote:
I think this is quite a silly episode...


Episode(s) Sashadroogie...

Lessee...earliest I can find from Jan 2013
But other than Colorado and New York, I'm not finding much else.
I thought the BBC article did a good job of calling out the inanity of it. Most domestic commentary of it is critical.
One of my favored news aggregators linked the story as:
Maximum-volume bull-goose whargarblarity ensues, from people who can't even master their native tongue
and
Arabic version of Pledge of Allegiance at Pine Bush High School ignites Fuhrer
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