deixis and deictic

[Beverly Flanigan]

dInIs, wassup with your 'whuzzup'?!  Maybe the voiced form is used by some?

At 11:17 AM 1/15/01 -0500, you wrote:
>>larry,
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>minima indeed, but a gotcha is  gotcha.
>
>dInIs
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>>At 9:14 AM -0500 1/15/01, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>>>>larry,
>>>
>>>Whuzzup with your syllable divisions today? DIE-ksis ~ DIKE-tick
>>>
>>>dInIs
>>OK, mea minima culpa.  DIKE-tick is an actual syllable division (and
>>there's the bonus of two syllables that correspond to actual English
>>words, always a nice trade-off when you're stuck in ascii).  I
>>thought I'd go with DIE-ksis for the "die" on the same grounds, but
>>now I realize that I COULD have gone with the even more
>>well-motivated (if potentially more offensive) DIKE-sis for the
>>nominal form.  There you go.
>>
>>larry
>
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