Re: Languages, dialects, and counter culture

James T Perkins replies:

>> I believe most US people would not deny that the British speak "proper"
>> English. Retentively prim & proper, to be precise. Unless you're from
>> Liverpool. We have relatively local culture (British Columbia) which may
>> feel it is more "proper" than England!


Retentively? Ouch....(suck suck suck.....)

Only joking!

Also,
>>                                                        .....Dialects
>> seem to spring up spontaneously as a means to cohesively bond a group of
>> people together who do not wish to be part of the mainstream, whether
>> this be for religious, moral, political, professional, or other reasons.

I agree. However, don't mistake the tone of my earlier posting - I was
intending to comment, rather than condemn. Certainly I have been part of
various groups over my life that have had 'in words' - college rugby, in the
huuuugest way, you villager (sic).


So, 'til jaz timmy, let's spug pish, with some right on pif paf pofs!
Kreegah, mutniks!

Yours dialectically,

James.