> At 08:18 PM 1/13/2010, Michael Smith wrote:
>
> > > It's Black English.
> >
> >Well, Polish Black English, maybe, considering the
> >original source.
>
> What about considering the character who spoke the words?
The character is African, IIRC (it's been a while since I read the book). I usually think of the phrase "Black English" as a US term. Do people elsewhere use it to refer to the way Africans speak English?
> >Indeed. Who knows why Eliot did anything?
>
> So funny I forgot to laugh.
Oh dear. I seem to have trod unawares upon a sore toe.
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