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afhill | 10 years ago | on: Why Blogging Died

Blogging as individuals writing = not dead Individuals with their own branded/hosted sites = on the deathbed

Your using medium as the platform seems to prove your point!

afhill | 10 years ago | on: The Great Canadian Vowel Shift

Yes! Pasta was one of the first words I learned to say differently when I moved from Edmonton to the US.

afhill | 10 years ago | on: The Great Canadian Vowel Shift

Hmm, I left Western Canada 15 years ago to move to Denver. I thought I had grown out of the accent, but now it seems the accent is catching up with me?

I studied linguistics in school and was fascinated by the linguistic shifts in Germanic languages long ago. But it seems a shame for it to be happening now as pronunciation becomes homogenized.