From mahoa@bu.edu Sun Feb 7 15:15:27 1999 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id PAA33538 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 15:15:27 -0800 Received: from acs-mail.bu.edu (root@ACS-MAIL.BU.EDU [128.197.153.100]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.2+UW99.01/8.9.2+UW99.01) with ESMTP id PAA31173 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 15:15:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from bu.edu (PPP-94-22.BU.EDU [128.197.9.140]) by acs-mail.bu.edu ((8.8.8.buoit.b5.ACS)/BU_Server-1.3) with ESMTP id SAA75058 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 18:15:24 -0500 Message-ID: <36BE1E0F.940E14F9@bu.edu> Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 18:13:19 -0500 From: Anne Mahoney X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,fr,de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: reaction to dialects, accents, etc. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lisa Auanger wrote: > Does anyone know of ancient responses to changing locations and finding > regional dialects, accents, inflections, etc. hard to deal with (though > not necessarily to understand). I am aware of some materials where > different ways of speaking are ridiculed, but cannot think of any where > the speech of the "homeland" is missed, where certain ways of speaking > hurt the writer's ears. What about Solon 24, the iambic piece about his politics? In lines 10-12 he talks about bringing back people from exile who've been away so long, and in so many places, that they no longer speak Attic. Solon doesn't say their speech is unpleasant, but the idea of missing "the speech of the homeland" seems to be present here. --Anne Mahoney .