Re: dialectal diversity in English
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 7, 2003, 11:04 |
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Adam Walker scripsit:
> But then there's Gullah and Hoitoid they really are
> jibberish without subtitles.
Well, okay, Gullah is a creole; no reason it should be mutually
intelligible with English.
> It's much easier to
> understand the Sichuan Mandarin two of my co-workers
> (sisters) speak to each other at the office.
And do they indeed swap the third and fourth tones?
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