I used to post over at MD&D prior to being banned and I brought up the above to Mr. Carmack. He never answered my questions. Clark Goble, a believing apologist who used to post over at Times & Seasons prior to his untimely death and at MD&D, leveled a similar criticism. Carmack didn't answer Mr. Goble's criticisms either. Mr. Carmack has never addressed spoken dialect and how it might have been more similar to Early Modern English than he allows. Spoken word always trails written word as far as changes and this might account for the archaisms Carmack supposedly finds. Clark suggested using court documents to perhaps find out what the spoken dialect was at the time. https://www.timesandseasons.org/harchiv ... of-Mormon/Alphus and Omegus wrote: ↑Thu Jul 08, 2021 3:20 pmDr Exiled wrote: ↑Sun Jun 27, 2021 4:45 pmThere are linguists who study the Appalachian dialect that included Palmyra and they say it could be close to Elizabethian or Early Modern English. https://daily.jstor.org/the-legendary-l ... an-holler/
This is such an important point. As a journalist, I have had to decipher different dialects in order to research stories. Has anyone who's read Carmack's drivel noticed whether he addressed this point?
It's a long-observed fact in linguistics that, due to their isolation, rural areas (especially before mass media) are sort of linguistic time capsules. They preserve archaic phrasings, pronunciations, and idioms.
Here's an article on Tangier Island, a small isle in the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia with lots of interesting linguistic artifacts:
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/arti ... que-speak/
Thanks for the article on Tangier Island. I remember that article and there was a 30 min program on how the apalachian dialect resembled elizbethian or Early Modern English. I can't seem to find the program. It was on PBS and was about the various enlish dialects here in the US. I think it was talking about the same island in one portion of the program. I wish I could find it.