Re: [OT] Norsk nb/nn (was: Wishlist for woody+1)
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 03:52:15PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> > > > > the difference between Slovak and Czech. Bigger than the difference
> > > > > between Croatian and Serbian.
> > > >
> > > > Which is in turn more different than e.g. literary English and colloquial
> > > > English, or American vs. British English.
> > >
> > > actually, differences between various Englishes are bigger, but
> > > obscured by common literary vocabulary and spelling
> >
> > Let me know when one variant of English starts doing s/i?je/e/ on a huge
> > amount of words...
>
> Brittish english does s/.:r/.:/ on huge amount of (USA english) words,
> while Cockney does s/h// and s/t/'/ almost everywhere (where ' is glottal stop)
> (I asumed you want parallel examples, not exactly the one you mentioned)
If I understood your regexp correctly, those examples aren't parallel...?
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