Re: THEORY: An English Koine? (was: Vowel shift (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation))

"I suggest that New York City be quarantined immediately. Its horrible
sound has now engulfed my little home town in New Jersey. Big-city speech
is always ugly, ISTM; it changes too rapidly, the whim of fashion. English
should sound, if I had my way, more like pirates of the 1700's of the movies."

Arr, do you be sayin' that thar be a reason for us to be speakin' like
this, arr?


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