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Originally Posted by Guinevere
Btw, if the Shire should represent not "Englishness" but "homeliness" then for me the Hobbits should speak Swiss Dialect!
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And why not?
After all, the Prof himself said (in Appendix F II) that
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Hobbits indeed spoke for the most part a rustic dialect.
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(Although I wonder whether Schwyzerdütsch shouldn't be more properly considered a language in its own right rather than a dialect...
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