Re: Orthography supporting sound changes?

Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>
> Ar an t-ochtú lá de mí Eanair, scríobh Peter T. Daniels:
>
> > [...] Of course you learn new words all through your life. That's got
> > nothing to do with learning your language.
>
> Why on earth not?

Language and vocabulary are learned in completely different ways.
Language is a closed, complete system while vocabulary is indefinitely
extensible.

> > > Chinese people are more aware of this,
> >
> > I'm tired of your chauvinism.
> >
> > > Peter> (2) Children mostly learn their language from their
> > > Peter> peergroup, not from their parents.
> > >
> > > That depends on how much time their parents want to spend on them.
> >
> > No, it does not. Children of immigrants don't speak the local language
> > with their parents' foreign accent.
>
> Some second generation Chicanos in California do.
> http://www.pbs.org/speak/speech/reveal/

There's also a distinctive variety of New York accent called
"Nuyorican," but it's generally found in monolingual Hispanic-origin
second-generation children and has nothing to do with their parents'
Puerto Rican-Spanish accent.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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