Heard on The Judges: sE > to BE

[Dennis Preston]

UGH! Imagine if you kin wakin up on a cold rainy mornin in Copenhagen
only to fahn LH typin mock southren. Ahma go back to bey-ud.

dInIs

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>Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>Subject:      Re: Heard on The Judges: sE > to BE
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>>On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>>>   At 7:33 PM +0200 4/8/08, Dennis Preston wrote:
>>>    >Interesting when a specific nonstandard is felt to be required (as it
>>>    >often is from AAVE). Are there other regional nonstandards required
>>>    >in such phrases. (I guess I don't consider any cases of r-lessness as
>>>    >nonstandard so don't give me no Pahk yuh cah in Hahvahd Yahd stuff.
>>>
>>>    How bout "Y'all come back, ya hear?"
>>>    (vs. the less likely "(You) come back, do you hear?")
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>>Surely the standard nonstandardism is "Y'all come back *now*, ya hear?"?
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>>--Ben Zimmer
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>Yep, shore is.  Ma bay-yid.
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>LH
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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor
Department of English
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