Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 06:09:12 +1000
Subject: Re: Why Throw Americans Out of Middle East... by Taliban


At 17:00 5/09/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Not in Canada, it isn't! Isn't the imposition of American spelling
>conventions on non-Americans a form of cultural hegemony?

Absolutely.  For example, in Australia, the newspapers that are owned by
Americans must use Americanisations in their spelling.  Thus "Love thy
neighbour no matter what the colour of their ideology" becomes "Love they
neighbor no matter what the color of the skin."  It used to bother me but
it doesn't any more.  



Paul Miller







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