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Old 09-Oct-2006, 20:07
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Default Re: The variety of English

[quote=Mariner;119553]It's just a cultural thing. When two communities/cities/states/countries are separated from each other in some way (obviously, the greater the separation, the bigger the difference) they develop differently.

I think this phenomenon is not peculiar to english language.
In Arabic some words used by a certain tribe have opposite meaning when used by other .
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