Re: USAGE: Weird dialectal stuff
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 11, 2000, 1:39 |
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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.
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