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- 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>
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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.
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- 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.
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