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<font size=3>Ah -- "Perhaps I'm wrong", and mistook a simple
past "we got (during our research) ..." for a past perfect
"we've got".<br><br>
"But I don't think so" -- or at least I'm not sure. The
original context was:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I suggest that New York City
English (classic White variety as studied by Labov in the 1960s) be used.
Since the fact is that there will be no spelling reform, I think we
should pick the dialect least likely to be chosen for it just to be
consistent with unlikeliness of the whole enterprise. Also, we got the
most marvelous collection of vowels. We could use Labov's variable system
to mark them, which I know from experience will drive phonologists crazy.
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Joel<br>
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At 10/15/2012 02:17 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Oct 15, 2012, at 10:19 AM,
Joel S. Berson <Berson@ATT.NET> wrote:<br><br>
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> At 10/15/2012 11:26 AM, Michael Newman wrote:<br>
>> What grammatical items do you have in mind. I couldn't find too
much<br>
>> that distinguishes NYCE from other varieties.<br>
><br>
> My grammatical item was your "Also, we got the most
marvelous<br>
> collection of vowels." I don't know whether to take that
as NYCE<br>
> (or is it LIE? as in Queens, LI?) -ism or a casual typing
elision.<br>
><br>
> And I was just joshing there. (Not about vowels, though.)<br>
><br><br>
"Marvelous" isn't a word I generally use, but otherwise, that
sounds like standard American English.<br><br>
Benjamin Barrett<br>
Seattle, WA<br><br>
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