Re: CHAT: R: CHAT: uGLy KaPiTaL LeTTRes & Klingon (was Luca's Re: Ke'kh)

>From: BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
>Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 08:32:16 +0200
>
>You can always reconstruct and single out the dialect ancestral to all
>modern dialects of Standard English -- funny thing is you can reconstruct
>it even if it never existed as such... -- tho the question remains how
>happy people would be with it...

But as many and varried as the dialects of english are, and as long ago as
some of the British dialects must have diverged from each other I suspect
you'd end up "reconstructing" an English from before the Great Vowel Shift,
which would probably mean that no one would even recognize it as English
except scholars of Middle English!    It would probably be easier to just
have us all speak Latin. *g*

Adam

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