Posted on 09/30/2016 9:47:13 AM PDT by C19fan
By the middle of the century, the “th” sound will have vanished from the English spoken in London due to the high level of immigrants who cannot pronounce it, linguists have said. In a study that shows the impact immigration is having on the English language, academics at the University of York say that Estuary English, the dialect currently spoken in London and south east England, will gradually be replaced by a heavily migrant-influenced English.
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Good point.
Matter of fact one guy I know told me how he used to do that as a kid and rather than dismiss it as just growing pains and normal childhood development like our forefathers did a lot of these sort of things, they claimed it was a symptom of mental illness and autism.
He didn't know it was wrong because it sounded almost alike. Well his teacher scolded him and threatened to have him left back or sent to a special school in front of the whole class and his mother beat him. He was told by his teacher and mother that he'd be in big trouble if he ever did it again and to drive it home, his mother, an abusive psychopath and a liberal Beat him so hard he bled.
He did stop doing it but certainly this wasn't the way to go. Most people including children do this. Mostly public school children. So rather than blame the school and the mother for doing a bad job in teaching them that which they were never taught they blamed junior. And they drove it home with abuse. All over the most simple and trivial of things.
I hate liberals. They're hypocrites and they're nasty. I mean for God's sake he's a child and he wasn't the only one who did that.
The "th" of "thin" is a different sound than the "th" of "the."
I don't think English-speakers in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are going to change the way they speak because of immigrants in SE England having a hard time with pronouncing English properly.
No. Pidgins have limited vocabulary and are for communication between people who do not know each other’s language. It’s not a creole or mixed language either, in spite of the Middle English Creole Hypothesis.
I can see the guttural throat growl of the Islamic languages taking its place.
Da Bears got no problem wit dat - Mike Ditka
Malarky. We will always have our shibboleths...
Although after Soros & Co. buy this election and send us all off marching into the New World Order, we’ll shortly all be speaking Esperanto. Rendering this moot.
Whatever will the fags do?
The Bah is not fah from Bostahn Hahbah
Stick your kahkeys in yo kahkis. You wont lose them. Top o dah day!
Pig Latin would be easier...but Muslims would be offended.
One of the farmers in the crowd called out, "He's stah-ving."
LOL, lots of this has been going on for years, both here and in the UK. I remember where I work we once had an ebonics-speaking employee who seldom pronounced the endings of words. She would come onto the intercom and announce “stock room, line one, please”, and it was “stah roo, lie wuh plea”.
And "Anthony magically became "Anfernee" as in "Anfernee Hardaway" (NBA player) in the Unites States of Ebonica.
What about the LGBT types who speak with a lithp?
No, English is a particularly cosmopolitan language because of its many influences, but it is a fully distinct and functional language, not a pidgin.
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