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Re:When did Americans lose their British accents? by Mediterraneo10 on Monday February 10, 2020 @10:41AM (#22290017)
Not quite that simple. Yes, SA English follows after certain features of Afrikaans, but some of those Afrikaans features were local innovations, not brought from the Netherlands (centralization of /i/ is one example).
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Re:When did Americans lose their British accents? by scoot on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:41AM (#22290679)
Hence "influence".
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Re:When did Americans lose their British accents? by Mediterraneo10 on Monday February 10, 2020 @01:00PM (#22291490)
My point is that that influence is not necessarily Dutch if the features in question happened in Afrikaans only after its arrival on the Cape.
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