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Re: terminal dialect?

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 31, 1999, 20:49
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. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor