Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation
| From: | Andrew Smith <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 17, 1999, 2:05 |
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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, John Cowan wrote:
> Sound-change does seem to happen in a bursty fashion. There's
> one going on now in the U.S. --- the "Inner Cities Drag-Chain
> Vowel Shift". I suspect that in a century or so it will have
> taken over the whole U.S. and maybe other Englishes as well.
>
Is this different to the vowel shift that is effecting the Southern
England dialect group?
- andrew.
Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And Universal Darkness buries All.
- Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book IV.