Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!noao!terak!doug From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Dialectization Message-ID: <344@terak.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 12:43:21 EST Article-I.D.: terak.344 Posted: Thu Feb 7 12:43:21 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Feb-85 04:43:36 EST References: <68@osu-eddie.UUCP> <67@spar.UUCP> Organization: Terak Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 12 > > ... the stabilizing influence of television on language. While it is > > true that TV will slow down the rate of language change and hinder regional > > variation, it will not totally eliminate language change. > That's not to say that language change has stopped. It's simply converging > to a single dialect, in which growth is restricted to vocabulary deletions > and creations, as heard on the mass media. Creations like the Subject line of these messages? I'd rather have the dialects :-) -- Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug