First of all, let me say that, in error, I attributed to you a statement made by someone else. I went back to previous emails and discovered the mistake.
If you believe that I deliberately cited it to "dishonestly" make a point, so be it. But this is not what actually occurred.
The fact is that there is so much irrationality in your discussions that there is no need for me to fake it.
Your intransigence about what is correct and what is not, and your disdain against linguistic systems spoken by millions of people around the world, have convinced me that although the citation was an error, in this case, the overall conclusion I came to was 100% appropriate.
I advise you to look at the work of Dr. Michel De Graff, Professor of Linguistics at MIT who has taken a more respectful position to pidgins and creoles. At the center of his research is a recognition and appreciation of the full potential of these linguistic systems.
Gloria Emeagwali
History Department
CCSU. New Britain. CT 06050
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Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016 3:27 PM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: SV: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Farooq, Funmi and Yona
But some days ago this is what you stated:
"No matter how good a Nigerian speaks and writes English it can never be as perfect as a born English native of England. ....................... A native of England with primary school education can write and speak better English than the best Nigerian Professor of English language because as native of England he/she is born with the language."
Do not allow naive and contradictory statements undermine your intellectual integrity.
Show me exactly where I wrote that. If you can't, then admit to your dishonesty. That's not even my prose. I don't write like that. Plus, that's a crassly ignorant statement I would never make even in my sleep. "..a born English native of England." And you think I would write that? What the heck does that mean?
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