Subject: [Ltru] Re: e[n]-GB-scouse (was: Matching metrics)

From: "Doug Ewell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 21:50:34 -0700

> From: Frank Ellermann <nobody at xyzzy dot claranet dot de> wrote:

>> In fact what you need is the knowledge that Scouse is a
>> dialect of en-GB.
>
> Not used elsewhere ?  That would be very different from some
> de-dialects found in places like Pennsylvania, Paraguay, or
> Kazakhstan, all different from their oounterparts in Germany
> today.  No chance of "en-scouse" communities in the US or in
> other parts of the world excl. GB ?

Not bloody likely.  Scouse is very closely linked with Liverpool, and is
quite distinct from other varieties of English English.  IIRC there is
also an implication of working-class.  I think Scouse mixed with non-GB
usage or non-GB pronunciation would not even be Scouse any more.
(Though I'd love to hear someone mix Scouse with SoCal surfer lingo:
"Gerron, dude!")

> If that's the case we just found another problem of squeezing
> four dimensions into one:  "scouse" would need a "recommended
> prefix" en-GB (implicitly en-*-GB), not only en.

In fact, there was a proposal back in 2002 to deprecate "en-scouse" and
replace it with "en-GB-scouse", but it was not approved.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California
 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/

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