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To: mnehring
What standard of speech?

Is that a real question or just a cynical comment? Please advise.

10 posted on 12/31/2009 11:08:53 AM PST by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal is in Iraq.)
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To: don-o

It is a real question, regional and generational dialects have always existed. It isn’t a ‘loss of standard’, simply changes in said dialects. Clear communication is always a challenge and has, throughout history, been one of the guideposts of those who successfully advance in society.

I believe what is different now is that with the mass distribution of media, we are exposed more to different regional and generational dialects and those often spread further than what would have been their isolated enclaves in the past.


19 posted on 12/31/2009 11:13:08 AM PST by mnehring
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