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jmcquown

foolishly great error.

And everybody knows that all Italians talk alike, right? And they're allied with crime families, right? And you know from how they talk that they would write grammatically correct English, right? It's a flaw of logic to try to postulate from the particular (one example) to the universal (everybody) and, in this case, it's also a character flaw.

I even know some.

And you, Jill, are so far off-the-mark that it's hard to believe you consider this rational.

Jill, it's absolutely, completely a matter of your not understanding. Nothing else. She spent the holidays more actively engaged in Italian NG's (as she states above) and has now rejoined RFC which she rightly considers American if only by weight of numbers of participants.

And your extreme reaction and insistence on the correctness of your opinion in the face of clarifying explanations makes you look pretty silly.

Jill, it's a singular astonishment how utterly wrong you are about this and, further, how much like Sheldon you sound. How poisonous you are being in the depths of your error.

She lives in northern Italy. I have postmarks and addresses to prove it. In private correspondence, her English is as it is on group. She's not illiterate - far from it - she suffers exactly the same things that anyone speaking in languages not their own does.

As for acquaintanceship with Italians - particularly northern Italians - my experience far, far trumps yours. My family came from there and my first language was Italian. I know the typical language formations likely to emerge in English (in which subject I'm university-degreed) from that linguistic background. They're what she posts.

It would be good if you bothered to actually read what others have posted about her and the situation. Look less foolish. Sound less bigoted.

Pastorio