"phonetically"

[Lisa Galvin]

Glad I could help clear that up for you.
Lisa


                                                   

> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 15:14:02 -0500
> From: hwgray at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: "phonetically"
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> 
> ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Re: "phonetically"
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Lisa Galvin <lisagal23 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > "phonetically", that is, without understanding what the words meant.
> 
> Nobody ever explained it to me that way, before! It seems - now -
> fairly obvious that what Foxx was trying to say was something along
> the lines of: though he could "say" Latin, as it were, and understood
> what the few Latin words used in church meant, he had no ability
> literally to speak that language.
> 
> OTOH, he did say it as though he were bragging: "I'm Chevy Chase. And
> you're not." Perhaps his point was,
> 
> "*I* spoke Latin *phonetically* [and *y'all* don't know no *parts* of
> no Latin!/don't even understand what I'm talking about]!"
> 
> Works for me.
> 
> --
> -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.
> -Mark Twain
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
                                          
------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org