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...many questions must regular people ask to identify a tune by the Redundant Steaks? Judge for yourself. Songs from each of their CDs are available on the MP3.com website, but Vaux warns, "You can listen to it on our web site if you're a glutton for punishment...
...have been replaced by new distinctive characteristics. A Bostonian might not say "cah" any more - for car - but they will say potato puff for tater tot. Sprinkles will be jimmies. And they'll use terms like "triple-decker" and "grinder," which don't really appear outside of the region. Vaux says he could probably identify where a person is from, by asking under ten questions regarding such idiosyncracies in language. He explains that one of the main reasons the world's languages vary so widely involves the way in which children learn language. "They construct their language based on what...
...course, Albanian might mean something to Vaux, who speaks five or six languages. "Badly. And I'm not good at accents. I can read about 20 languages. But this is not the focus of linguistics these days. People focus on the structure of languages instead of learning how to speak them well...
...Relatedly, Vaux mentions that studies show that diversity in English is increasing. For instance, people often ignore the spelling of words. Vaux points out that, for instance, about half of the population pronounces the word "Semitic" differently than it is spelled, saying "Semetic...
...Bert Vaux...