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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
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Posted: Thu Feb  7 12:43:21 1985
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Organization: Terak Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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> >   ...   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   :-)
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