Craig Haynie wrote:
Do you ever watch Jay Leno? There are people in America who do not know
the name of the president of the United States.
Good point. However, I expect that just about every American knew
Lincoln was the president in 1863, and FDR was in 1943. Churchill was
well known in th
Jed, Craig, & Terry sez:
>>> England also has a wide range of dialects for such a small geographic
>>> area. Some areas were remarkably isolated well into the 20th century.
>>> A book about dialects that I read years ago said that in 1943, a
>>> linguist found an old guy in a village in southern
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Craig Haynie wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 14:07 -0400, Jed Rothwell wrote:
>
>> England also has a wide range of dialects for such a small geographic
>> area. Some areas were remarkably isolated well into the 20th century.
>> A book about dialects that I read year
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 14:07 -0400, Jed Rothwell wrote:
> England also has a wide range of dialects for such a small geographic
> area. Some areas were remarkably isolated well into the 20th century.
> A book about dialects that I read years ago said that in 1943, a
> linguist found an old guy in a
Here are a series of Apple iPod advertisements with a voice-over in
Japanese, but not just any Japanese. This is deep-fried, bleached-in-the-sun
southern Japanese, kind of like south Georgia English, with vocabulary 150
years out of date:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh-sENPLd44&;
If this guy w
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