Re: History of French

From: Peter Dy (peterdy_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:27:18 GMT

"Ruud Harmsen" <realemailseesite01@rudhar.com> wrote in message
news:ft0sk05sl05220n34384q5ojc1i5tbtt9a@4ax.com...
[...]
> 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.

Isn't the American-like "r" in words like "daar" something that happened in
the last 30 years, for example?

Peter

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