XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.books   
   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On 29 Aug 2013 00:16:12 GMT, "Ted Nolan "   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.books:   
      
   [...]   
      
   > The English have been speaking English for over a thousand   
   > years.   
      
   For one value of ‘English’ -- a very useful value for some   
   discussions, but not so much for this one.   
      
   In England alone it covers Late Old English, Early Middle   
   English, Middle English, Late Middle English, Early Modern   
   English, Present-Day English, all in several sometimes very   
   different dialects -- and that’s a *coarse* subdivision.   
      
   [...]   
      
   Brian   
      
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