Re: dialectal diversity in English

> > 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.

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