Re: USAGE: Shavian: was Re: USAGE: Con-graphies
| From: | Hanuman Zhang <zhang@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 11, 2006, 20:26 |
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on 6/11/06 4:25 AM, Yahya Abdal-Aziz at yahya@MELBPC.ORG.AU wrote:
> But what's even worse, from my point of view,
> is that English now has so many different
> phonemic realisations (languages?; if Cantonese
> and Hokkien are Chinese dialects, then these
> are English dialects; otherwise, they're languages
> ...)
Betwixt dialect and language is regiolects (region + 'lect)...
--
Hanuman Zhang, MangaLanger
Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars
leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode,
orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics
warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...
"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_
"We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes,
to find each other." - Jose Saramago