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From: Alistair on 1 Feb 2007 14:47
On 27 Jan, 16:08, docdw...(a)panix.com () wrote:
> In article <1169906735.918646.250...(a)j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>,
>
> Alistair <alist...(a)ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >On 27 Jan, 12:46, docdw...(a)panix.com () wrote:
> >> In article <6287f$45babdc4$d066072d$5...(a)FUSE.NET>,
>
> >> [DIALECT HUMOR ALERT!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!]
>
> >> Reminds me of the Old Southern Joke, usually told by an Old Southern Man:
> >> 'I was walkin' thru the town t'other day an' I saw a boy,
>
> >So this ol' southern gen'l'man was from Yorkshire?
>
> I don't recall his geography being specified, Mr Maclean, but it most
> certainly is possible that he spent time in the North American state of
> Virginia, certainly.
>
> <http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&addtohistory=&a...>
>
> (in order to repent for your provincial notions about dialect you might
> wish to consider how certain aspects of Elisabethan English were still to
> be found in areas of the Appalachian Mountains as recently as a
> half-century back (dialects, in general, are fading due to the onslaught
> of radio-/television-speak)... oh, I *cannot* resist...
>
> ... a bit of isolation made it difficult, it seems, for even diligent
> Americans to wash out that particular linguistic stain.... errrr, strain.
>
> DD


I dod know that US English is closer to the Pilgrim Fathers' English
than current UK English (especially spelling). I didn't know that tha
US has only progressed since 1950...

From: Anonymous on 1 Feb 2007 20:39
In article <1170359276.738066.31630(a)k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Alistair <alistair(a)ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:

[snip]

>I didn't know that tha
>US has only progressed since 1950...

That depends on whom one asks, Mr Maclean... some say it's been downhill
ever since (insert time-point here).

DD

From: Howard Brazee on 5 Feb 2007 10:19
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:39:50 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf(a)panix.com () wrote:

>>I didn't know that tha
>>US has only progressed since 1950...
>
>That depends on whom one asks, Mr Maclean... some say it's been downhill
>ever since (insert time-point here).

Since forever, each generation has been worse than the previous with
doomsday in sight - while each century gets better than the previous
with paradise in sight.
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