Anglo-American communications studies

[David Honig]

At 01:00 PM 1/5/01 -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
> a good example of the US habit of never using a short
>word when a long one will do. But when I found myself amongst Americans
>I was slightly disappointed to find that they almost all say "tap" these
>days. Just as they say "car" instead of "automobile". You are obviously
>all watching too much British TV, or listening to too many British rock
>bands. You should defend your language against this tide of old-world
>vulgarity.

Nah, we're simply Huffman-encoding.  A language has to be efficient
in this meme market :-)