Could this question only have been asked by a moron?

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  1. Shane R

    Shane R Well-Known Member

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    I've had a couple of conversations with a Welsh man and there were a couple of dipthongs he habitually pronounced in a way I have never heard before.

    Then there's African English where the pieces are there but they've been assembled in a way that no Western speaker would go about the task. And the listener is never entirely sure if the tenses mean what he thinks they do.
     
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    I still don't know why a traffic light is called a "robot" in South Africa. :)
     
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  5. DadHocHypothesis

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    All the reconstructions I've heard of Shakespeare's English have sounded very West Country to me. Not quite pirate, but at least Gareth Keenan- or Mr Moulterd-level.