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MineralMan

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8. It's actually a dialect of English.

Reply to Bennyboy (Original post)

Fri Mar 1, 2013, 04:07 PM

Mar 2013

It's not really a full-blown language. The California teen dialect of the early 60s is gone, too, and good riddance to it. It really chungered the English language.

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Boontling, America's other language for (mostly) white people is dying.... [View all] Bennyboy Mar 2013 OP

I suppose the native Americans spoke either English or upaloopa Mar 2013 #1

LOL! MineralMan Mar 2013 #2

I'd think Sequoyah might have something to say about that. Fawke Em Mar 2013 #3

Catholic priest Diego de Landa (R) would love to have had a chance to burn that, too Berlum Mar 2013 #14

I don't think English is a home grown language. n/t hughee99 Mar 2013 #5

It's not. My mistake. I use to be a docent at a upaloopa Mar 2013 #7

This does have me interested, though. What's considered the "other" hughee99 Mar 2013 #9

Apparently, Appalachian English KamaAina Mar 2013 #13

I think that is in CA if so Spanish was spoken there also upaloopa Mar 2013 #4

It's a jargon, not technically a language Canuckistanian Mar 2013 #6

It's actually a dialect of English. MineralMan Mar 2013 #8

I horned some of their steinber just a couple of weeks ago KamaAina Mar 2013 #10

Their fesrtival is a MUST DO for any beer lover.. Bennyboy Mar 2013 #12

Reminds me of this guy joeybee12 Mar 2013 #11