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3/30 Oh yeah, that was definitely written by an English-speaker:
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=10654
\_ "To British People"
\_ You never know, she might have gone to public school...
\_ William Shatner does the best cover of this.
\_ Heh, you are aware of the difference in meaning for the
term "public school" between Britian and England?
\_ I guess not, what is the difference between a public school
in Britian and one in England?
term "public school" between Britian and America?
\_ I am now. Looked it up.
\_ Reminds me of the opening paragraph of "Family Romance."
http://www.erinoconnor.org/archives/2007/03/great_openings.html |
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| www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=10654 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Text of 3rd letter allegedly written by Faye Turney in Iran Fri. The letter, which is addressed to the British people, was released to the media by Iranian officials on Friday. BEGINS To British People I am writing to you as a British service person who has been sent to Iraq, sacrificed due to the intervening policies of the Bush and Blair governments. We were arrested after entering Iranian waters by the Iranian forces. I understand that this has caused even more distrust for the people of Iran and the whole area in the British (sic). The Iranian people have treated me well and have proved themselves to be caring, compassionate, hospitable and friendly. I believe that for our countries to move forward we need to start withdrawing our forces from Iraq and leave the people of Iraq to start re-building their lives. I have written a letter to the people of Iran apologising for our actions. Whereas we hear and see on the news the way prisoners were treated in Abo-Ghrayb (sic) and other Iraqi jails by British and American personnel, I have received total respect and faced no harm. It is now our time to ask our government to make a change to its oppressive behaviour towards other people. |
| www.erinoconnor.org/archives/2007/03/great_openings.html Great openings Here's the epigraph to John Lanchester's memoir, Family Romance: "If I am ever kidnapped or taken hostage," my mother told me, "and they allow me to communicate with you, but I can't say what's happened or where I am, what I'll do is, I'll deliberately make a grammatical mistake. As a snapshot of a relationship, a portrait of a mother, a window into a writer's mind, and a grammar lesson, this is a marvelously telling moment, and a great way to begin a book. memoir focuses on his remarkable family life -- which includes a childhood spent not knowing that his mother had falsified a great deal of her history when she met his father, and which also details his attempts, as an adult, to reconstruct who his parents really were, and what their marriage, built as it was on secrets, actually meant. |