January 06, 2005, 20:26
<Asa Lovejoy>Do You Speak American?
How many of you caught the program on the dialects of the USA on PBS? What do you think - are US of Americans becoming more, or less linguistically homogeneous? They presented arguments for both cases.
January 06, 2005, 21:53
jheemIt was a lot of fun. I particularly enjoyed the story about the new vowel shift under way in the central northern part of the US.
More here.
January 07, 2005, 11:41
KallehYes, Asa, Shu and I caught (and say that
without the new vowel shift!) the show, and in fact there is another discussion of it in Community.
The vowel shift idea is interesting, except I don't see it happening, at least in Chicago.