Fwd: conversating

[Baker, John]

So what do you think is happening, Wilson?  Are the participants not really in the stated settings, or are participants chosen who have less prominent local dialects, or what?  It sounds like something interesting may be going on; I'm curious as to what.
 
John Baker
 

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From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Wilson Gray
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Subject: Re: Fwd: conversating




FWIW, ElimiDate could give the naive watcher the impression that local
dialects are on the way out. The setting is, e.g. Natchez,
Mississippi, and the only thing clearly Southern about the speech of
the participants is their use of "y'all"? Black participants sound
like Tom Brokaw? To quote Richard Pryor, "Unreal! An' I ain' goin' fo'
it."

-Wilson

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