rate of language change

JoatSimeon at aol.com JoatSimeon at aol.com
Tue Apr 13 13:30:35 UTC 1999


>larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk writes:

>Abraham Lincoln was born in Illinois.

-- Kentucky, actually.

>How successful do you think he'd be at understanding present-day Chicagoans?

-- quite successful; each would simply appear to have a strong accent to the
other. (Lincoln would sound rather like a hillbilly, pronouncing words like
"idea" as "idear").



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