Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Robert Hailman wrote:
> > That seems like an awful lot of sound changes for one generation, but I
> > suppose it could happen.
>
> I think it must have been a gradual thing, just most noticeable when it
> hit my generation.
Sound changes can be big and sudden; I pronounce the Dutch "ei" as
[Ej] and my kids tend towards [Aj]. So do most other kids, and some
adults younger than I am (even one teacher I heard today; the whole
school may have caught it from her).

Obviously, they've been learning Dutch mainly from us - they've been
learning language at home longer than at school, even the eldest -
but they sure don't learn *that* pronunciation from us! I've almost
stopped trying to get them to pronounce it "properly", I think I
should resign myself to the fact of a sound change...

   Irina

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