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"As there is growing realization that the community will not be able to sustain itself and that young people will have no choice but to leave, younger speakers are using more local dialect features than their parents, not fewer: an expression of solidarity with their dying community." 🥹

"He then quickly moved out of sight and noted how many post-vocalic [r]s the employee had pronounced."

Lololol just a linguist scurrying away to hoard phonemes in private.

Also, pretend the [r] is upside down. This is not a trill.

I did not expect to sit down and read an entire chapter but like... It was highly relevant? I got bamboozled by Old English early in and then there was German Linguistics and Icelandic/Norse and PIE and the Great Vowel Shift and then some cool stuff about Middle English I didn't know and then it was over and like I said... bamboozled.