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Re: terminal dialect?

From:Hawksinger <hawksinger@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 31, 1999, 23:16
Gary Shannon wrote:
> > > > >Well, technology is definitely causing greater standardization, but I > >doubt that reruns will be popular enough to retard language change > >significantly. You must also consider that technology is changing > >society at an unprecedented rate, and rapid social change is always > >associated with rapid linguistic change. I mean, I can see your point > >about technology retarding change, and maybe there's something to it. > >Who knows which influence will win out? > > > Good point. Now that you mention it, movies from the 1930's already sound > noticibly different both in pronunciation and typical usage. > > --Gary.
If you any of you are catching NPR's series on old sound recordings, you may notice as I have, that a good many of the people have very British (yeah, I know, overbroad generalization) sounding pronunciations. People have included eyewitnesses to the Gettysburg Address (1863) and Watson of Thomas Edison's fame. -- Brad Coon hawksinger@fwi.com listowner battleship-l http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/7264/battleship-l.html http://www.ipfw.indiana.edu/east1/coon/web/index.htm (home pg. et al.) http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/7264 (outdoor and prim.skills) http://members.tripod.com/~Hawksinger (wine and whisky pgs) Civilize the mind and make savage the body. (Chinese proverb)