Re: CHAT: Essentialist Explanation
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 14, 2003, 16:52 |
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In a message dated 2003:06:13 10:48:34 AM, jaspax@U.WASHINGTON.EDU writes:
>Jake X sikyal:
>
>> Modern English read phonetically is essentially
>> Middle English as no Middle Englishman would have
>> spoken it.
>
>Ha ha! I love it!
Ebonics be Shakespeare playin' da urbon Oak-lan' (Calie-forn-ah) bluz,
homie.
Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
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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_
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