May 10th, 2007, 01:29 am
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 | EFL Teacher | | Join Date: Mar 28th, 2007 Location: Hunan, China
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 Re: Diversity in English
I guess what I'm saying is that just because there is a lingua franca (international English) that doesn't mean that local varieties will disappear. Looking at China, there is a definite dominant dialect (Mandarin) but tons and tons of local variations, many of which are mutually unintelligible. I imagine things could end up the same way with English.
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