Re: THEORY: Languages divided by politics and religion

On 26 May, Nik Taylor wrote:


>One wonders, if the South had won the Civil War, and the two sides
>remained in bitter animosity, would they claim to speak different
>languages?
Obviously there then would have been difficulties travelling
from one side to the other, thus engendering the isolation
that's always good for divergent evolution.
_I_  am wondering what that would have done to
_Black_  English (or whatever the politically correct name is now);
and obConculture, what would have happened to Black music
(blues: would the Northern Blacks have developed the form?
jazz: what would divergent evolution have done to the
New Orleans-Detroit difference? And would Elvis have happened?


Dan Sulani
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