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Actually, modern American English is closer to the language of Shakespeare than modern British English is. Or so I was told in linguistics class: as a colonial population becomes isolated from the mother country, it becomes MORE linguistically conservative. This is true of Siberian settlements as well: Siberian Russian contains many words, as well as pronunciations, that long since have been dropped from the "Moscow" standard Russian.
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I think that was partially covered in SftD/Xenocide/CotM somewhere-- OSC mentioned that the language on Lusitania had changed to become a mix between Common (?) and Portugese; Xenobiologist had been adapted to become Zenodor, or something like that.
That sticks in my mind, but I'm not sure of the exact book or page number.
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Well, it should have been the other way around, with Lusitanian retaining characteristics that had faded out of "Earth Standard" Portugese.
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I play rugby! Yes! Finally! Football is for wimps!
As Anthony Stewart Head said:
"Football is just a bunch of louts strapping on forty punds of pretective gear just to play rugby, with lots of breathers"
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