Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 23:51:35 -0500

From: Dan Goodman dsgood[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VISI.COM

Subject: science-fictional question



This is the general case: Given someone who claims his native dialect

is one previously unknown, how would you test this claim?



More specifically: The person claims to be from an alternate world

whose history diverged from ours a bit over 200 years ago. His native

language is English. He claims to have grown up in southern

California.



Dan Goodman

dsgood[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]visi.com

http://www.visi.com/~dsgood/index.html

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