RE: Gamey PT boat tactic ?
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:14 pm
Nothing gamey about it.
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
Some mountain communities in Virginia spoke Elizabethan English as well - at least until quite recently.
My wife went to high school with some guy who transferred in from a more remote area of the Virginia mountains - and he understood Shakespeare perfectly well, because that is what they spoke where he came from. [X(] [:)]
I don't doubt it. Much of Appalachia was settled by Scots-Irish who had been on the run from the British for several hundred years before they headed over here, often as indentured servants.
There are/were islands off South Carolina/Georgia where the residents still spoke Gullah well into the 1970s as well. "The Water is Wide", Pat Conroy's ("The Great Santini", "The Lords of Discipline", "The Prince of Tides") novel which became the movie "Conrack" tells of his interaction with them as a teacher. He was fired, and thus became a novelist.
From Wikipedia on the Gullah people and language of the Low Country: "The Gullah are known for preserving more of their African linguistic and cultural heritage than any other African-American community in the United States. They speak an English-based creole language containing many African loanwords and significant influences from African languages in grammar and sentence structure. The Gullah language is related to Jamaican Creole, Barbadian Dialect, and the Krio language of Sierra Leone in West Africa. Gullah storytelling, cuisine, music, folk beliefs, crafts, farming and fishing traditions, all exhibit strong influences from West and Central African cultures."