Re: terminal dialect?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 31, 1999, 20:49 |
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Mathew Willoughby wrote:
> Although some theorize that we will one day have very different
> American, Australian and British languages, I think that the media
> has had the unintentional effect of slowing down this diversification.
Indeed, it has REVERSED that diversification. It is said that British
and American English were most different around WWII, and that since
then, we've been approaching each other.
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