Heard on The Judges

[Dan Goodman]

David Bowie wrote:

> No, just included year of birth 'cause the area i grew up in has been
> going through some pretty severe and rapid linguistic changes over the
> last century--so the *when* is pretty much as important as the where for
> that community.

Mine also:  The "big city" about fifteen miles away (Kingston NY) has
(I'm told) been taken over by the New York Metropolitan Dialect.
Perhaps there will be a time when to hear someone speaking my dialect,
I'll have to listen to recordings of Rod Serling.

And my family spent a couple of winters in the Miami area, back when
Cuban-Americans there tended to be politically left of center.

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