On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 10:34:23 +0100, nmm1 wrote:

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More seriously, a lot of their usages are merely preservations of 17th
and 18th century English. An educated English speaker can understand
almost all of educated American, but not conversely.
The New York Yiddish dialect is pretty inscrutable, even to most
Americans, and Ebonics is more so.

As a New Yorker born and just returned from there, I couldn't be happier
to be back on this side of the pond. The funny thing with American's in
general is you never know what you'll get: on the one hand incredible
provincialism sometimes even among the very educated, on the other we met
a shoe salesman who knew Paris and London extremely well, down to
Bertrand and Boris.

My family was very amused as always how the NY accent comes back when in
the city, the kids simultaneously cringing and laughing at me.

cheers,

-E

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