Re: Labov's latest discovery in sociolinguistics

Franz Gnaedinger wrote:
On Mar 24, 5:47 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That's nice. But you still haven't explained why you brought this up in
the middle of a discussion of young people's awareness of social status
as related to the way they speak.

I was talking to Peter.

What's that got to do with why you suddenly burst into a discussion with something that was completely unrelated?
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