Re: USAGE: Weird dialectal stuff
| From: | Paul&Kathy <paulnkathy@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 11, 2000, 1:46 |
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 20:39:46 -0500, Nik Taylor writes:
> Paul&Kathy wrote:
[Terra Novan]
> > seems to me to be descended from a British English pidgin over
> > an American English substrate?)
>
> It's certainly not intended that way! :-) It's descended from
> present-day English, from a form that was probably influenced mostly by
> American English. Their ancestors left Earth sometime in the 23rd or
> 24th century. The colonists were probably from all over Earth, so I'll
> probably be putting some non-English influences.
>
Okeydokey.
There just seemed (maybe I haven't been paying close enough
attention) to have a generally American base phonology, with some
sound-changes that were more towards British. /?/ for
intervocalic (alveo-)dentals springs most immediately to mind
(although this has already been discussed. I'm sure there were
some vowels that seemed to go towards and then through the
British forms. I'll go back and re-read...
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Paul Bennett