Heard on The Judges: intune = "overhear"; a comment on ahruh.

[Herb Stahlke]

Wilson,

Do you know anything about implosives in Southern Black English?
William Stewart made mention of them in a 1966 paper, and I know they
occur in other Southern varieties from Texas across to North Carolina.

Herb

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Fifty-ish, black,female speaker:
>
> "I saw [the defendant] conversating with my ex-husband. So, I
> approached them till I was close enough to _intune_ what they was
> saying."
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>
> Very likely, a nonce-form invented on the spot. But, you never know. I
> once thought the same about _conversate_.
>
>
> I've had occasion to hear cases involving black farmers from Georgia
> and some involving white farmers from Mississippi. All speakers were
> r-ful / rhotic! Is ahruh-lessness dying out, even down home?
>
> -Wilson
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