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Re: USAGE: Weird dialectal stuff

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 11, 2000, 1:39
Paul&Kathy wrote:
> (which 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. -- "Old linguists never die - they just come to voiceless stops." - anonymous http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor