putative bidialectalism

[Dennis R. Preston]

Ron,

You have clearly forgotten John Rickford's Elvis performance at a
not-so-long-ago Stanford NWAV.

dInIs



>In a message dated 10/22/04 3:47:34 PM, wilson.gray at RCN.COM writes:
>
>
>>  FWIW, he is the best bi-dialectal speaker that I've ever heard,
>>  including myself, and that's saying a taste. He's in a class with
>>  Leonard Brezhnev's nameless personal interpreter, who's the best
>>  bi-lingual speaker that I've ever heard.
>>
>
>Does this refer to Allan Metcalf or John Rickford? Both are very talented
>guys, and I THINK I know them both quite well. I've never heard
>either one speak
>in anything other than what I have always taken to be the same dialect,
>fundamentally, that he spoke at age 16 or so. The idea of Allan
>Metcalf doing rap or
>John Rickford doing Frank Sinatra is delightful, though, and I hope we can
>get them together for a duet in San Francisco in January. I'd
>particularly like
>to hear John's rendition of "My Way" and Allan's "Me So Horny."


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Dennis R. Preston
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