
Conlangery #133: Language and Identity
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The Importance of Group Identity in Change
Apparently Gandhi moved from having a more British English to kind of a more Indian sounding English later in his life. And clearly that, you know, a shift that shows his affiliation, realigning over time. So he's, he's moving to like a firm, his group affiliation with Indian by adopting more Indian English, rather than British English. That's an interesting situation where people may just kind of switch in and out depending on context,. But then also people may develop their like natural dialect to shift over time even within one person's lifetime.
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