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#160923 08/01/06 01:16 PM
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Western/Central Canadian English? That covers a heckuva lot of territory. My mother came from Manitoba, and her vowels were broader than the Ontarian vowels I speak. When I was fifteen we moved from Oakville (near Toronto) a mere hundred miles northish to Elmvale, and there was a marked difference in vocabulary and vowel sounds. I was considered to "talk funny" until I picked it up.
Here in Northeastern Ontario we have a different vocabulary again - for example, in the Muskokas, south of here, one goes to the cottage. Here, it's going out to camp. "Camp" may be a two-storey chalet with a satellite dish and in-ground swimming pool next to the tennis court, but, dammit, it's "camp".


I'm in the "bad idea" camp (not cottage).

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#160924 08/13/06 06:43 AM
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You can't just put rigid economy conditions on an existing language and call it a new language. It's the stupidest idea I've ever heard of.

#160925 08/15/06 03:41 AM
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Reminds me of Unamunda, da linkwa looniversahl, in "The Universal Language," a short play by David Ives, from the set "All In the Timing."

"Velcro! Bell jar, Froyling! Harvardyu?...Dameetcha playzeer!"

Unamunda is funnier.

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