Teenage speak and beyond

[Marc Sacks]

> Poster:       "Landau, James" <James.Landau at NGC.COM>
> Isn't this nothing more than a continuation of the Great Vowel Shift,
> re-emerging after about three centuries in a beyance?
>
>    - Jim Landau

Wow! Three centuries? Who dug up the beyance after all these years?

Or are three centuries in a beyance like four men in a balloon?

Marc
msacks at theworld.com

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