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  • From: "George F. Somsel" <gfsomsel AT juno.com>
  • To: peterkirk AT qaya.org
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] exodus, dating of linguistics
  • Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 16:48:00 -0400

It shouldn't be surprising that Californians of the 19th cent would use
English in much the same fashion as those in the east since a good many
Californians of that time were eastern transplants. It would rather be
surprising if they didn't.

gfsomsel
________

On Sat, 29 May 2004 13:19:00 -0700 Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
writes:
> On 29/05/2004 13:26, Michael Abernathy wrote:
> Oh, I understand. I know of places where a few miles walk in any
> direction results in language differences as great as that between
> the
> UK and France or between the USA and Mexico, i.e. totally different,
>
> although distantly related, languages. And I know of a language
> spoken
> in just one village of 2000 people, but which still has four
> distinct
> dialects spoken in the four quarters of the village. On the other
> hand,
> I also know of places where essentially the same language was spoken
>
> over distances of thousands of miles even before any modern
> inventions.
> Indeed the USA itself is a good example, in the late 19th century
> (and
> even before the telegraph and the transcontinental railroad if you
> want
> to get picky about modern inventions); certainly there were some
> regional variations, but I suspect that the English of a 19th
> century
> California newspaper would be only slightly different from that of a
> New
> York newspaper, or a London one.
>
> So, we can't jump to any quick conclusions about language use in
> ancient
> rael, but we need to look closely at the actual evidence. And Yigal
> has given us some good pointers in that direction.
>
>
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