i loved reading this, the way the sounds hardened, became almost infantile,
partiuclarly around the dropping of the silent 'e'. I could hear my kids
pronunciation coming through. and then the way it slid into the german accent.
reminds me of a review that someone called glen newey wrote for the London
thingummy of books, review, thing. he works in the same philosophy dept at
sussex, him big lecturer me little injun doctoral thingummy, and it was full of
all this anti-german tirade about the rise of the reich and stuff. dead wierd
way of reviewing habermas if you ask me. more fun in the one ric sent out but
I do find the whole way people feel that they're not european so odd,
particularly in terms of language when we're all taught, or at least I assume
it's practically 'common knowlegde' that the langauge we speak is related to
french, roman, greek etc (and eventually that indo-european root etc at a 'more
academic' level). the whole thing is just funny. anyhow, my thanks too for
this piece.
matt
(who must stop writing to this list and lurk again)
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