Teenage speak and beyond

[Dennis Preston]

The rotations are very similar to the Great Vowel Shift indeed, but
why would one think that it was dormant all those years? The natural
forces on vowel shifts seem ubiquitous; the social forces are another
matter (which is where this discussion started).

dInIs

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>>  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?
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>>     - Jim Landau
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>Wow! Three centuries? Who dug up the beyance after all these years?
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>Or are three centuries in a beyance like four men in a balloon?
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