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To: mamelukesabre

There’s research which indicates that the English variants spoken in the Appalachian hill country are actually closer to Middle and Early Modern English dialectical variants from the areas from which the original settlers came than to Modern Standard English.

Appalachians talk funny because they come from areas which are linguistic time capsules, most illegal aliens speak funny Spanish because their families never mastered it to begin with.


32 posted on 02/24/2009 5:45:27 PM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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To: Philo-Junius

OK, allow me to modify my analogy...

It’s probably like a cajun kid trying to learn chaucer.


35 posted on 02/24/2009 5:48:44 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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