From: Rick McCallister
Message: 63301
Date: 2009-02-21
--- On Fri, 2/20/09, Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> wrote:
. . .
>
> I realize that my views on what 'true' dialects
> have represented
> throughout the medieval (and part of modern) history of
> Europe
> cannot be applied to what some of the members of the List
> want to
> call 'American dialects'. By now, it should be
> clear to anyone that
> to me those are not 'dialects' at all, but rather
> 'accent varieties'.
> And, in addition to that, their formation is so
> 'ridiculously'
> RECENT!
>
In most cases perhaps but there are basilect forms that are incomprehensible to outsiders, and then there is Gullah, which is very different