Louisiana vowels

[Mark Mandel]

That's a good reply, Ron; I'll have to remember it.

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On 10/12/07, RonButters at aol.com <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Wonderful, Arnold! I would add only that, when students object that
> specific
> linguistic changes MUST have a particular explanation--that language
> change
> cannot be random--I ask them why it rained yesterday and not today. It
> seems
> to me that folk wisdom actually has a fairly well-developed sense of the
> random
> nature of some phenomena (e.g., in addition to the weather, the sudden
> appearance of a giant number of gnats that recently changed the course of
> ba
> seball history; "just not getting the cards" at poker; meeting the love of
> one's life in
> Bora-Bora).
>
>

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