Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Here's a good summary of Trudgill's view. My hypothesis is that small professional communities — including activist communities — develop distinctive jargon just like the "societies of intimates" that were the norm for at least 98% of human history. https://t.co/CcNgxdujcL — PolitiTweet.org

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So when Dutch is transformed into Afrikaans in a context where lots of non-native speakers are trying to learn Dutch, you wind up dropping grammatical gender. And when Old English mashed up with Old Norse in the Danelaw, we dropped inflections. — PolitiTweet.org

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But in mass politics it's not helpful to speak like a member of a small society of intimates, you want to speak to a very large audience of strangers. — PolitiTweet.org

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