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<font size=3>At 07:54 PM 3/25/2001 -0500, Dennis Preston wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite><blockquote type=cite cite>I use 'dialect'
very broadly (to cover social and stylistic levels).<br>
I think I'm not alone. For me, thereefore, since 'gonna' reflects
an<br>
actual pronunciation difference (however badly), it is not<br>
'eye-dialect.'</blockquote></font><font size=4></blockquote>Is "eye
dialect" a transparent compound? Or is it so only to some extent but
not fully a transparent one? Does "dialect" in "eye
dialect" have the same meaning as "dialect" in
"English dialects?"<br>
<br>
Sali.<br>
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