Re: terminal dialect?

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>         I think you exagerate the association between social change and linguistic
> change. The example I always give is the one of the Russian Revolutions in
> 1917. The social change that happened during that revolution was the most
> important one any country ever beared during History. The country, which
> was very rural and religious, became in less than 10 years industrial and
> atheist. No other social change in any other country can be comparable.
> BUT, the Russian language didn't change at all during the revolution. Well,
> at least, its rate of change didn't change during the revolution. The
> social change didn't accelerate the linguistic change.
Hmm, interesting.  However, altho there may be counterexamples, it still
holds as a general rule.  I AM rather surprised that linguistic change
wasn't at least temporarily accelerated.

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