Re: [T] -> [f] (was: Chinese Dialect Question)
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 9:47 |
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At 16:55 7.10.2003, Tristan McLeay wrote:
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> > Yeah, I think at least international standard English will be relatively
> > frozen henceforth.
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>I doubt it. I reckon the individual dialects will go their own ways, and
>ISE will go wherever GA takes it, though remaining conservative enough
>that we can understand it.
Except that GA itself is falling apart. Cf. the Labov link
I sent yesterday!
/BP 8^)
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