Re: dialectal diversity in English

Quoting Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>:

> > > During humanity's existence, control of the foci and details of
> > > recorded history has lain primarily in the hands of those holding
> power.
> >
> >Sure, but there's no reason a priori to suppose that the powers that
> were
> >had
> >any particular interest in hiding a such disaster. And at least in
> the
> >western
> >world, bureaucrats have a tendency to spend time and energy at
> perpetuating
> >evidence incriminating to themselves and their masters - I have, in
> my
> >ignorance, no reason to suppose that Chinese bureaucrats would behave
> any
> >differently. China's supposed to be one of the better chronicled pieces
> of
> >the
> >globe.
>
> Doesn't require an interest in overtly hiding anything (disaster or
> otherwise). Historically, if those in power considered an event
> inconsequential, then it was ignored, especially considering the
> limited
> global dispersement of information, and the speed of that
> dispersement.
One might've thought that the disappearance of lots of taxpayers wouldn't been
regarded as inconsequential.

                                        Andreas