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Re: dialectal diversity in English

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Sunday, May 18, 2003, 14:23
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From: "Eamon Graham" <robertg@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: dialectal diversity in English


> Chris Bates wrote: > > > > I know the difference between gaelic (learned a bit once) and english, > > and I'm talking about a dialect of english not gaelic. Its possible that > > they could be bilingual and that that could make their english even more > > difficult to understand but I am not getting gaelic and english > > confused. And I do not mean african creoles either. > > > > There's a difference between Scots and Scottish Gaelic; Scots is a > Germanic language, sister to Modern English and undergoing heavy > influence from Modern English, but nonetheless a different > language.
This is debateable. While I agree with you, basically, it's close enough to English to possibly be called a language.