[A.M. Kuchling] | I think that backwoods American speech is more archaic, and | therefore is possibly closer to historical European speech. | Susan Cooper uses this as a minor plot point in her juvenile | novel "King of Shadows", which is about a 20th-century | Southern kid who goes back to Elizabethan times and ends up | acting with Shakespeare; his accent ensures that he doesn't | sound *too* strange in 16th-century London.
Aha! Bit of North American parochialism there. The fact that he's a "Southern kid" doesn't say "from the southern states of North America" to everyone. All right, in fact it's clear from the context, but I just fancied having a jab. In fact, I rather like the fact that he can truthfully claim to come from Falmouth, which his hearers (including Queen Elizabeth!) understand to mean the town in the West Country [of England] whereas in fact he means the town in Carolina (apparently). TJG | | --amk | -- | http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list | | ______________________________________________________________ | __________ | This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The | service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive | anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: | http://www.star.net.uk | ______________________________________________________________ | __________ | ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
