Re: dialectal diversity in English

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From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: dialectal diversity in English


> Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:
>
> > Adam Walker scripsit:
> >
> > > then to top it all we found his own
> > > grandfather and great-grandfather *fighting* for the
> > > Yankees!  It's been rather hilarious.
> >
> > Not surprising.  I should think that one could find Americans from
> > every
> > state (that existed at the time) on both sides (yet another reason why
> > "War Between The States" is an unreasonable name, though "Civil War"
> > has its problems too).
>
> Terry Pratchett notes in The Discworld Companion that the history of
> Ankh-Morpork has seen a number of civil wars, as well as a few downright
uncivil
> ones. So I suggest the conflict be relabled "The (American) Uncivil War".
Yes, indeed.

Incidentally, one of those Civil wars was covered in the latest novel, Night
Watch.  Now that's a brilliant piece of writing.
>                                                             Andreas
>

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