~ (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Scot LaFaive]

>Scot: I think I understand how dialects arise, but I never thought of
>there being a "why".  Since you referred to "how and why dialects
>arise", I'm curious about this (in all seriousness, if you were in
>fact serious about it).

I was serious, but really the how and why are essentially the same. I guess
it just sounded more poetic to say "how and why."

Scot

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Randy Alexander
<strangeguitars at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I ask you to explain yourself in the light of the facts that I asked you
> below and you give us
> > this
>
> WARNING! INSULTING LANGUAGE FOLLOWS:
>
> crap.  You're a drag.  Get lost.
>
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> Tom: is there some useful purpose behind the insults?  Because I can't
> find any.  (If you respond, please don't respond with something along
> the lines of "well, he did it to me first!")
>
> Scot: I think I understand how dialects arise, but I never thought of
> there being a "why".  Since you referred to "how and why dialects
> arise", I'm curious about this (in all seriousness, if you were in
> fact serious about it).
>
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> Randy Alexander
> Jilin City, China
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