Heard on Jerry Springer: European-American _BIN + PrP

[Mark Mandel]

Wilson, is it right to infer that you're not capitalizing "BIN" to denote
(additional, in this case) emphatic stress, but just to highlight the word?

m a m

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thirty-ish, Southern-white male speaker confronting his girlfriend:
>
> "I _BIN cheatin' on_ you!"
>
>
> I've heard this structure used by white speakers about as often as
> I've heard the structure, "BIN _told_ you," as opposed to "BIN
> _tellin'_ you," from black speakers: rarely.
>
> Further deponent sayeth not.
>
> --
> -Wilson
> –––
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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