thru Yang’s eyes

“If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don’t you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can’t think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you’re supposed to read? Do you think everything you’re supposed to think? Buy what you’re told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you’re alive. If you don’t claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned.”

An episode from Fight Club.

個人愛好，加之家庭原因，我的上海話呈現出日趨老化的形勢。每每遇到熟悉的朋友，我都會肆無忌憚的操起一口口音無比老派的上海話，以一種無比老派的口吻和腔調，和他們誇誇其談，還不時加上點包袱、笑料、口頭禪，互相托一托，無比默契，饒有趣味。

然而事實上我口音的變化，是在讀了大學之後才開始的。具體時間也是在大二之後，在我的寧波話開始有所長進的時候。 是時還有一過渡期，就是我對一些發音還不是很確定，説話時仍舊放不開。起初的確有些怪，周圍人也覺得新鮮。不斷有人也開始稍微老派一點起來了。

然而就在我完全有了老派的感覺之後， 卻有一種愈發強烈的擔心——上海話正在死去。我曾經以爲，純正的上海話已經死掉——誠然——現在即使是不純正的上海話，也在死去。詞彙、音調的變化日益嚴重，北方方言、普通話對於上海話的同化、威脅不斷。未來我們只能從大師們曾經的錄音中，去尋找真正的吳儂軟語了。