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Re: dialectal diversity in English

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, May 19, 2003, 19:46
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