From: Rick McCallister
Message: 63588
Date: 2009-03-08
> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>The problem is that General American English sounds nothing like NYC English. I don't think you could persuade anyone except a die-hard Yankees fan otherwise. Any contact with NYC English would have been through print-media until the 1930s when radio became available for the masses and talkies arrived in the cities.
> Subject: [tied] Re: American Dutch dialects
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 7:21 PM
> > They would have studied in the capital BUT there were
> no real doctors
> > where my family lived. You had to go to the capital by
> car or train.
>
> He either had direct or indirect constact with NYC and
> spoke some predecessor of General American, or he did
> neither. You can't have it both ways.
>
>
> Torsten