LL-L "Language varieties" 2010.03.31 (01) [EN]

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From: Tom Mc Rae <thomas.mcrae at bigpond.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2010.03.30 (05) [EN]

I was most impressed by the York Museum's audio collection of dialects from
all over the County.



Recordings are most important, in Scotland we have lost so much already.



On 31/03/2010, at 12:06 PM, Lowlands-L List wrote:

 1. How do you preserve language information for posterity? How do you
deep-freeze it so that when the descendants of the speakers who let go
of it start to pine for it again?



Best Regards
Tom Mc Rae
Brisbane Australia
An honest man's the noblest work of God (Robert Burns)



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