Date:  Wed, 24 Nov 1993 10:54:56 -0500

From:  ALICE FABER <FABER%LENNY[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VENUS.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Dialect Diversity?



When the New York Times article on the loss of the traditional NYC accent

(e.g., toidy-toid street) was printed last year, I had the same reaction that

others on the list have expressed to the comments attributed to Stewart. But

we should bear in mind that the few sentences printed were probably distilled

out of a longer interview, and many qualifications expressed would have been

edited out in the name of pithiness.



Alice Faber

Faber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]Yalehask.bitnet