Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 00:07:32 -0400

From: ALICE FABER faber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HASKINS.YALE.EDU

Subject: Re: ADS-L Digest - 30 Apr 1996 to 1 May 1996



Michael Montgomery wrote:



| Dear Friends,

|

| A candid statement from a final exam I have just read:

|

| "Out of all the different dialects, Standard English is the one that is

| most wildly used."

^^^^^^

| Is this why some of us don't communicate with our students as well as we'd

| like?



Isn't this evidence of the intrusive /l/ we were talking about before we got

sidetracked by May( )day, or at least some kind of linguistic insecurity

engendered thereby?



| A gentle end of the semester to all,



Indeed.



Alice Faber