Teenage speak and beyond

[Alice Faber]

Aside from that, the various rotations of the Great Vowel Shift took
place over the course of several centuries. It's only with a time remove
of half a millennium that it's possible (albeit not very sensible) to
see the GVS as a single, mammoth shift.

Dennis Preston wrote:
> 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:       Marc Sacks <msacks at THEWORLD.COM>
>> Subject:      Re: Teenage speak and beyond
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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?
>>>
>>>     - Jim Landau
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>> 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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