mailring & soda in mpls

[T. Hakala]

Well, I'm not officially a Minnesotan, but I lived in Minneapolis for two
years.  Never heard "mailring" while I was living there but, from what I
can tell, Mpls is definitely "pop" territory.  As is western Pennsylvania,
where I grew up.  Florida (or at least the Ormond Beach area), on the other
hand, is home to more "soda" speakers.  When I moved with my family to FL at
age seven, I quickly learned to change my "pops" to "sodas" in order to avoid
being the object of ridicule.  I now live in Seattle, where I am free to say
"pop" once again.

Taryn Hakala

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On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, M M wrote:

> I'm pleased to learn that I don't type with too much
> of a Minnesotan accent.  How many Minnesotans are on
> this "mailring"?  So far I've found 3 of us.
>
> Maybe I was presumptuous in saying that "mailring" is
> common in Minnesota, but it is what I've heard in my
> sheltered life.  I have never heard it used as a term
> for a "poor man's listserv."
>
> I have studied some phonetic and phonology, but as you
> guessed, I've only been looking at books.  I'll keep
> my eyes open for any phonetic books with tapes, or
> perhaps I could enroll in some summer courses in
> phonetics/phonology.  Thanks for the advice!
>
>
> Maia
>
> --- Tom Kysilko <pds at VISI.COM> wrote:
> > At 01:38 PM 8/8/2002 -0400, Alice Faber wrote:
> > >Dave Wilton said:
> > >>  > "Mailring"--a new term to me!  Has anyone else
> > heard it?
> > >
> > >This sounds more like an email version of the
> > family circular letters
> > >(predecessor of the holiday letter?). Mom writes a
> > newsy letter to
> > >daughter #1, who adds a newsy letter and forwards
> > it and Mom's letter
> > >to her sister (daughter #2), and so forth. I'm not
> > sure the term
> > >makes sense for a mailing list, since the
> > information is transmitted
> > >in parallel rather than serially.
> >
> > My father's sibs and nieces, who grew up in central
> > WI, carried on one of
> > these for many years, calling it their "round
> > robin".
> >
> > And FWIW, this Minnesotan has not previously
> > encountered "mailring".  If I
> > had to guess, I suppose I'd apply it to a "poor
> > man's listserv" in which
> > all participants keep a group or distribution list
> > in their address books,
> > or just keep replying "to all".
> >
> > And Beverly, how did you smoke out the Minnesotan?
> > I re-read Maia's
> > message several times and could not detect an
> > accent.
> > *
> > *
> > *
> > Ok, that was meant to be a joke, but ...  One of the
> > problems Maia may run
> > into if she continues self-directed study in
> > linguistics for the two or
> > three years until grad school is what to do about
> > phonetics/phonology.  One
> > can stare at that blasted trapezoid or, even worse,
> > sonograms without
> > learning as much as one would like to.  A textbook
> > with accompanying tapes
> > or CDs would be nice (Are their any?), but I suspect
> > (as one who has never
> > had one) that there is no substitute for a good
> > class.
> >
> >   Tom Kysilko        Practical Data Services
> >   pds at visi.com       Saint Paul MN USA
>
>
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