18th century in Virginia?

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Post #104,671 by cwbrenn 6/3/03 6:25:28 PM Reply	18th century in Virginia? Modernist. :) In some of the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina, the local dialect is the closest modern equivalent to middle english there is. Methinks. "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #104,672 by pwhysall 6/3/03 6:27:06 PM Reply	No. The closest modern equivalent to middle English is the Geordie accent, as spoken in the North-East of England. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #104,679 by cwbrenn 6/3/03 7:03:38 PM Reply	Fight! No, not really. I'm just parroting information I've read elsewhere, is all. "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #104,697 by boxley 6/3/03 8:34:23 PM Reply	In the mountains of the carolines and virginia the local dialect is closer to 17th century english as spoken by welsh and scots, On the coast of those states they sound remarkable like Bristol folks. Wargghh. thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org] "I hit him so hard in the head his dog shat a turd in the shape of Jesus" Leonard Pine
Post #104,699 by Yendor 6/3/03 8:49:37 PM Reply	Oh, come on... ...You weren't THAT hard to understand. ;-) -YendorMike [link\|http://www.hope-ride.org/\|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
Post #104,737 by pwhysall 6/4/03 2:25:34 AM Reply	I'm not from these parts. I be a midlander. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]

Question for the language pedants out there... - (hnick) - (19) - June 3, 2003, 05:19:05 PM EDT

That's a close call - (drewk) - (1) - June 3, 2003, 05:29:49 PM EDT

That one also drives me up a wall... -NT - (hnick) - June 3, 2003, 05:45:23 PM EDT

This is a bogus "rule" - (Silverlock) - (10) - June 3, 2003, 05:35:56 PM EDT

Good, support for what I plan to keep doing anyway ;) -NT - (drewk) - June 3, 2003, 05:39:31 PM EDT

Nice link - (hnick) - (6) - June 3, 2003, 05:49:14 PM EDT

18th century in Virginia? - (cwbrenn) - (5) - June 3, 2003, 06:25:28 PM EDT

No. - (pwhysall) - (4) - June 3, 2003, 06:27:06 PM EDT

Fight! - (cwbrenn) - June 3, 2003, 07:03:38 PM EDT

In the mountains of the carolines and virginia - (boxley) - June 3, 2003, 08:34:23 PM EDT

Oh, come on... - (Yendor) - (1) - June 3, 2003, 08:49:37 PM EDT

I'm not from these parts. - (pwhysall) - June 4, 2003, 02:25:34 AM EDT

That is certainly my experience. - (dmarker) - (1) - June 3, 2003, 06:59:14 PM EDT

**giggle** - (jb4) - June 3, 2003, 07:10:43 PM EDT

Conversational - recitation - (deSitter) - June 3, 2003, 09:41:42 PM EDT

What about Pl's? - (deSitter) - June 3, 2003, 09:44:44 PM EDT

That's the difficulty.. illustrated with such as, - (Ashton) - (1) - June 3, 2003, 10:49:20 PM EDT

That's the thing about breaking rules - (drewk) - June 4, 2003, 08:04:07 AM EDT

Syntax error - (mhuber) - (1) - June 4, 2003, 07:25:42 AM EDT

And that is why computers cannot parse arbitrary English. -NT - (static) - June 4, 2003, 08:04:15 AM EDT

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