Re: History of French

From: Ruud Harmsen (realemailseesite01_at_rudhar.com)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:18:43 +0200

Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:56:32 +0200: Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@hotmail.com>: in
sci.lang:

>And how do the _trained_ voices sound? After all, they are the ones
>speaking standard English.

Yeah, right, especially that woman in the link I mentioned elsewhere
in the thread, with her almost Scottish/Italian trilled r. Trained
yes, but standard? In that era maybe, when the standard was still very
much alienated from the language of the street.

>> The last time I flew JetBlue, I got to see Match Game and Family Feud
>> (on GameShowNetwork or whatever it's called) from the 70s, and even 30
>> years is enough for them to sound a little different.
>
>What were the differences?

Probably hard to describe phonetically, but clearly noticeable.
Peter's observations for AmE are consistent with my own regarding
Dutch. About the same rate of change. Differences difficult to
pinpoint, by clearly recognizable. 30 years is long enough. That's
roughly one generation, so it's not surprising my children talk
noticeably differently than their parents. I heard my sister's chidren
talk again last weekend, and they talk different _and_ the same as
mine, due to a different mix of regional, parental and modernist
influences. They too talk differently than both their parents, who
don't both talk the same either, due to different though similar
backgrounds.
And all this happens in a country 300 by 200 km. 

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Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com

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