Re: dialectal diversity in English

Quoting Joe <joe@...>:

> ----- Original Message -----
> 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.
Yes. I'm only wishing that one of my more Bohemian* friends would finally
return my copy so it once more could grace my bookshelf. Since he borrowed it
and Keegan's A History of Warfare there's been two ugly gaping holes in my
bookshelf, which is depressing me ...

* No, he's not a Czech.

                                                      Andreas