chramies's review against another edition
4.0
What's a language? A dialect, goes the old saying, with an army and a navy. But mutual intelligibility is also an issue (Basque for example has no army nor navy and it is unlike anything else!). I'd argue that Black Country fulfils many of the criteria for actually being a language: it varies from Standard English as much, say, as Scots, and that's considered a language (not Scots Gaelic: Scots). If people took it seriously rather than treating it as some kind of joke then we might see a revival in interest. (getting rid of the flag wouldn't be a bad idea either. If you're going to have a chain on a flag it should be broken, to symbolise liberation. A gearwheel instead perhaps?).
Steve Edwards is one of very few people to have taken Black Country seriously. I hope people do before it dies out.
Bostin', bab!
Steve Edwards is one of very few people to have taken Black Country seriously. I hope people do before it dies out.
Bostin', bab!
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