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Article #2021Re: English/American
From: Stan Friesen
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 20:24
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 20:24
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In article <1h5nflINNeog@pith.uoregon.edu>, delancey@darkwing.uoregon.edu (Scott C DeLancey) writes: |> In article <1992Dec21.171713.13930@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> tariqh@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Tariq Hamid) writes: |> >The world media system. For instance the English spoken in the U.S.A would |> >have split in various sub-languages if it were not for televison and radio |> |> In only 300+ years? That would be a pretty amazing rate of divergence, |> for dialects that are, after all, still spoken in a geogrphically |> contiguous area. Not really - considering that that is about how long it took for the major dialects of Anglo-Saxon to diverge, and they were more divergent than the *major* dialects of modern English. -- sarima@teradata.com (formerly tdatirv!sarima) or Stanley.Friesen@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!tdat!tools3!swf From: swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen) Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: English/American Keywords: English, dialects Message-ID: <1688@tdat.teradata.COM> Date: 4 Jan 93 20:24:32 GMT References: <1992Dec19.172133.18284@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> <1992Dec21.162522.8774@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1992Dec21.171713.13930@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> <1h5nflINNeog@pith.uoregon.edu> Sender: news@tdat.teradata.COM Distribution: world Organization: NCR Teradata Database Business Unit Lines: 17