Square from Delaware, etc

[Margaret Lee]

Many times in African American language, a word or phrase does not always have to make sense or adhere to its  traditional or logical meaning. In AAE, words are often given new meanings in which the focus is not so much on the meaning itself, but on how it sounds within a phrase or in a rhyme.  And in AAE as an oral language, sound is everything!
 
--Margaret Lee 



On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:
>
> At 8:36 PM -0300 9/4/08, David A. Daniel wrote:
> >Mebbe wrong, but I don't think the pronunciation of Spokane is the
issue; I
> >think it is the meaning of "lane" if any(thing special other
than "street")
>
> That would surprise me. 




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