On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 08:51:01 +0000, Timothy Collinson wrote:

>Why not English? I asked with a smile...

I (and many others that I've known) have said for many years that for any
two countries X and Y that are in the Anglosphere, they're two countries
divided by a common language...

I took advantage of that, to some extent, in presenting ideas on how to use
English to make your character seem foreign, in "Speaking in Tongues"
https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/dialect.html (July/Aug
2017)...

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