Date:  Wed, 13 Sep 1995 13:05:49 -0500

From:  "Gregory J. Pulliam" <HUMPULLIAM[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MINNA.ACC.IIT.EDU>

Subject: Re: FOR English Only



Tom,

Why have you STILL not responded to Terry's points? Why are you so eager

to latch on to her anger and so unwilling to engage the primary arguments

against EOL? I think many of us assume it's because you have no reasonable

response, and therefore, choose to make no response at all.



Additionally, several people have taken Terry's "get the f*** off this list"

out of context, it seems to me. The ADS-L is a list for people who are in

favor of linguistic diversity--both within the English-speaking community, and

within and between other languages. Most of us celebrate diversity, so to

come online and start talking about "national unity" and other such notions

is by nature inflammatory. It would be analogous to joining a list for

baseball lovers and continuously dissing the sport, and then when confronted

with numerous flames from baseball-lovers, claiming to be the victim of an

unfair assault.



There are forums for people interested in language issues in general to

exchange ideas. I wish you'd write to them.



Greg Pulliam

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

humpulliam[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]minna.acc.iit.edu