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Old 04-30-2004, 07:23 PM   #7
Griff
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Local dialects are funny like that, the first time I saw Train Spotting, I remember panicking for the first couple minutes, wondering if I'd ever pick it up. A Scottish guy I know really strains to understand rural Pennsylvanian. I'd assume if a language is passed on to an isolated population in a spoken form but not written the drift must be much more extreme.
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