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More options Apr 27 2004, 2:25 am

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From: Kars <nob...@nothing.com>

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 18:25:38 +0200

Local: Tues, Apr 27 2004 2:25 am

Subject: Re: Thief 3 : more comments

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Walter Mitty wrote:
> Kars <nob...@nothing.com> brightened my day with his incisive wit when in
> news:408cf82c@puffinus.its.uu.se he conjectured that:

>>David Cowie wrote:

>>>On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 17:12:06 +0200, Walter Mitty wrote:

>>>>American accents? Totally out of place.

>>>Does Thief 3 takes place in England ?

>>And interestingly, if you've studied the history of the english language
>>you see that the way american english sounds is closer to old english
>>than modern british english.

>>/kars

> Source? Since none of the origins of the English language (Celts, Romans,
> Angles, Saxons, Jutes) sound anything like Americans I find this hard to
> believe : I'd love to see the facts.

It seems I haven't my "History of the English language" at hand (course
literature from when I studied English at Uppsala University (Sweden)).
Then again, it might have been something a lecturer said, so
unfortunately I can't back up my claim right now :/

/kars

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