LL-L "English" 2001.10.16 (01) [E]

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 L O W L A N D S - L * 16.OCT.2001 (01) * ISSN 189-5582 * LCSN 96-4226
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From: "Aviad Stier" <aviad2001 at hotmail.com>
Subject:

Hello!
Ian James Parsley wrote:
"It is absolutely essential for any linguist to grasp that language
change is constant and inevitable - something most lay people do not
comprehend. Such change is inevitable no matter where the language is
spoken.

What I am saying essentially is that the English of England has changed
just as much as the English of North America in the past few centuries."

This is of course perfectly true (and, unfortunately, too little known).
Linguistic research, anyway, shows that often immigrant communities tend to
be more "conservative" in terms of language, and very often preserve
language characteristics that are obsolete in the home-country. This is
true, by the way, not only to language, but in general to oral traditions
such as music, cooking, folk tales and so on.
Aviad Stier
Brussels, Belgium.

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