[lit-ideas] Re: New York baby talk.
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:45:36 -0800
Did anyone catch Jim Lehrer's PBS program on American idiom? What little I
saw seemed to argue that American speech is becoming more, rather than less,
varied.
The example which started this thread is to my ear age specific rather than
geography specific, a verbal tic embraced by some people now aged between
twenty and thirty. One of my newest colleagues talks like this.
Here's the pbs website:
http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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