Re: Harsh vs. Soft Sounds
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 30, 2003, 2:24 |
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In a message dated 2003:08:29 07:09:43 PM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR
writes:
>there used to be a Parisian dialect using the uvular trill - the dialect
Edith Piaf spoke
>- but it's now dead
Any explanation(s) why this linguistic death happened????
IIRC her accent was from poor rural French who moved into the poorer Paris
precincts in the late 19th Century (or earlier). After WW2, their children -
wishing to avoid being "rural outsiders" forever - assimilated into Parisian
culture and current accents. [Quite similar to the "Okies" who moved to Los
Angeles and San Francisco, California in the 1930's & '40's...]
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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_
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