Re: terminal dialect?
| From: | Hawksinger <hawksinger@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 31, 1999, 23:16 |
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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.
--
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