Re: NAC language suppression

At 10:26 AM 10/17/99 +1000, you wrote:
>Ground Zero Games wrote:
>
>> Hey, WE sometimes have trouble understanding those from north of
Norwich or
>> west of Colchester.... Anyway, it's all flat caps and whippets north
of
>> Watford Gap, innit?
>
>"There's trouble up't Mill."
>"Pardon?"
>"One of t'crossbeam's gone out askew on t'treadle"
>
>or alternately
>
>"Ere all, see all, say nowt
>Ate all, sup all, pay nowt
>And if ever the does owt for nowt
>Allus do't for tha sen"
>
>...which has exact equivalents in both Ostfriesische Plattdeutsch (Low
>German variant) and Twents (Dutch dialect) that sounds very close.
>

What was it Disraeli said?  That the English are the "mongrel race of
Europe"...a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and language bits
from everywhere...

hmmm.

...English is the Borg of languages...

Adrian Johnson
ajohnson@idirect.com