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Ergo lingua mihi deficit*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Tony Fairman
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Abstract

A reply to Sir Randolph Quirk and a discussion of the implications of Braj Kachru's term ‘deficit linguistics’

Type
Research Article
Information
English Today , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 23 - 26
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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* A possible credo for regional dialect users (rarefied and partly in Latin to hide the fallacious argument): “I believe in Standard. Standard is a tounge. I do not use Standard. Therefore, I lack a tounge”.