Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 21:40:07 -0600

From: Dan Goodman dsgood[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VISI.COM

Subject: some simple -- I hope questions



I realize that most of you are probably tired of explaining this kind

of thing at the beginning of every school year.



If you have time to answer, please don't be shy about recommending

your own writings.



From a writing list I'm on.



Dan Goodman

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http://www.visi.com/~dsgood/index.html

Whatever you wish for me, may you have twice as much.



---------- Forwarded message ----------

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 01:14:40 -0600

From: SHARON L REDDY ROLAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]prodigy.net

To: Dan Goodman dsgood[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]visi.com

Cc: FANTASY[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CHAOSMANOR.COM

Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION] Character Naming



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-----Original Message-----

From: Dan Goodman dsgood[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]visi.com

To: SHARON L REDDY ROLAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]prodigy.net

Cc: FANTASY[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CHAOSMANOR.COM FANTASY[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CHAOSMANOR.COM

Date: 21 January 1998 14:48

Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION] Character Naming



No. Mythical. Wrong. There was a vote on _whether to translate some

Federal documents into German_. And the United States _does not have an

official national language_.



I've been told things in history and American Government texts were wrong

before so this doesn't really surprise me.



Influence from other languages shows up mostly in vocabulary. Local

dialects within regions may be heavily influenced by other languages,

though this tends to fade after a while.



This one you're going to have to prove. The PhD in speech therapy who gave

me the information while helping me enunciate more clearly did her doctoral

thesis on it. I'm not talking about words in the language or patterns of

speech. It's the physical shaping of the sound of which I'm speaking. If

those differences disappear, why is there a southern drawl and an Ozark

twang. Ths country was _not_ settled primarily by English speaking peoples.

The languages of those peoples can be heard in the formation of words by the

peoples of the regions today.



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