Here a short radio piece about Philadelphia's unique sounds and how they are changing.
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Jeffrey Shallit
Recurrent thoughts about mathematics, science, politics, music, religion, and
Recurrent thoughts about mathematics, science, politics, music, religion, and
Recurrent thoughts about mathematics, science, politics, music, religion, and
Recurrent thoughts about ....
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Jeffrey Shallit
American mathematician, professor of computer science at a major Canadian university, & skeptic.
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- A Missed Teachable Moment
- Why I Talk the Way I Do
- Paul Erdős Would Have Been 100
- Doug Axe Doesn't Understand Information Theory
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- A Puzzle from Simon Plouffe
- "God and Reason" short course - Final Thoughts
- God and Reason, Session 8: "The Next Step"
- The *Good* Jonathan Witt Gives a Talk
- God and Reason Session 7 - "Could There Be Just On...
- A Little-Known Graph Inequality
- Another Shameful Shutdown of Free Speech at Waterloo
- Gish and Chavez: I Won't Miss Them
- Ancient Arctic Camels Were the Moose of Their Day
- "God and Reason" - Lecture 5 - "Is the Bible Relia...
- God and Reason, Lecture 6: Who Was Jesus?
- Allouche Special Issue Published
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4 comments:
Interesting. But this is happening with most languages, dialects, etc. A couple of examples: when I first heard Atiyah speak I thought I was listening to a British reporter from WWII. Second example: in Swedish, at some point, the sound "sh" shifted to something that is more like and "h", written as /ɧ/ in the IPA, and, nowadays, pronouncing "choklad" (chocolate) with "sh" is considered something old ladies do; people replace "sh" with a mere "h".
As another Philadelfyun, I am intrigued by how few people elsewhere know what a Philadelphyuh accent sounds like. In the Rocky movies they apparently used New York or northern New Jersey accents for what were supposed to be Philadelphyuns. They knew it was supposed to be strong but they had no clue.
There are web sites that can test your accent (by making you choose which words sound alike). Here is one. After over 50 years since I last lived in Philadelphia, it nailed my accent as a Philadelpfyuh accent.
True story: I was walking down the street in Chicago about 30 years ago, and a car pulled up. The window rolled down, and the driver asked, "Can you tell me how to get to...". After I uttered one sentence -- something like "You go down one block and turn right" -- he looked at me and said, "You're from Philadelphia." I said, "Yes, how did you know?" He replied, "Well, I'm a linguist."
(Actchewlly I misspelled my comment. Here it is corrected):
As anuther Philadelfyun, I am intrigued by haow fyew people elseware know whut a Philadelphyuh accent saounds like. In the Rocky movies they appaerently used New Yawrk or northern New Jursey accents for what were suppowesed to be Philadelphyuns. They knew it was suppowesed to be strawng but they had no clue.
There are web sites that can test your accent (by making you choose which wurds sound alike). Here is one. After over 50 years since I laest lived in Philadelphyuh, it nailed my accent as a Philadelpfyuh accent.
(I am willing to be cawrected as it has been a few years).
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