Fisher's Ghost, and Other EssaysF.W. Cheshire, 1950 - 208 pages |
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... Speech and its recording have largely made civilisation . Speech is never absolutely fixed , for man himself is so change- able . Pure dialect is dying out in many parts of the world and the existence or possibility of a standard ...
... Speech and its recording have largely made civilisation . Speech is never absolutely fixed , for man himself is so change- able . Pure dialect is dying out in many parts of the world and the existence or possibility of a standard ...
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... speech is gradually dying out in England , as in France . The speech of the younger people is not that of their parents or grandparents . A living language must change ; we are unconsciously being " educated " into uniformity of speech ...
... speech is gradually dying out in England , as in France . The speech of the younger people is not that of their parents or grandparents . A living language must change ; we are unconsciously being " educated " into uniformity of speech ...
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... speech . Language has been made tangible , portable , permanent . Words are spoken , heard , written , seen , felt ( as in Braille ) and signalled by the deaf - mute and in Morse . Now recorded speech is as permanent as a book . The ...
... speech . Language has been made tangible , portable , permanent . Words are spoken , heard , written , seen , felt ( as in Braille ) and signalled by the deaf - mute and in Morse . Now recorded speech is as permanent as a book . The ...
Contents
FISHERS GHOSTTWO SIDELIGHTS | 1 |
THAT WORD AGAIN | 16 |
THE ESSENTIAL MURDOCH | 33 |
Copyright | |
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