[lbo-talk] Quebec separatism

[Michael Perelman]

Isn't it common that colonial countries speak archaic dialects.  I remember an Iraqi friend 
of mine I was in undergraduate told me about his first day on campus at the International 
House.  He had studied English intensively.  The first person he met was from India who 
asked him a pertinent question:  "Why don't you sally forth throughout your leage (I don't 
even know how to spell that one, so I'm giving my best phonetic spelling) and raise tumult 
and insurrection?"  He went home and cried thinking that he had never learned English.

Didn't the Appalachian people speak a rather Shakespearean dialect until fairly recently?  
I remember hearing some linguist say something like that.

-- 
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu