Re: The English visage.

On 24 Jun 2006 11:17:34 -0700, "Barrie England"
<baralbion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

irwell wrote:
Did Tony Han*** have an "English" face?

Not sure what you mean. He was English, so I suppose he had an English
face. If you're asking whether his face was in some way typical of the
rest of us, then maybe. He was able to express visually so many nuances
that we might all recognise ourselves in him at some time or other. But
can you say anyone has an English, or an American of French face? I'm
not sure you can. Is there a linguistic point here somewhere that I've
missed?

One of my aunts, a doctor, once told me that speech affects the way in
which the jaw develops in childhood, and that this tends to produce
slight facial differences between the speakers of different languages.
I have no idea whether this is a substantiated fact or just an
interesting theory, and it probably isn't what irwell was talking
about, but at least it's OT.

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Katy Jennison

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