Re: linguistic dogma

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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 20:34

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In article <Csvytu.FC9@inter.NL.net> mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:
>In article <300ts4$77t@csi0.csi.uottawa.ca>,
>Mark Israel <misrael@csi.uottawa.ca> wrote:
>
>>(2) We know that geographical displacement correlates negatively 
>>with language change:  U.S. English and Quebec French are more
>>archaic than British English and French French. 
>
>I doubt that is a "constant".  It's true that U.S. English is more 
>archaic in some respects. In others, it is clearly not. 

I would love to see examples of ways one is more archaic than the other.

-Wally

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