"like that"

[Dennis R. Preston]

>Yeah, but is he dissing "dis" or is he dissing the "dis" which is
>synonymous with" this"? That is, is he dissing things lexical or
>things phonetic.

dInIs (whose fricatives are all in place)



>Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>>mark mandel:
>>>I'm really getting to dislike dis.
>>
>>are you dissing us?
>>
>No way. He's dissing dis.
>
>Alice
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