eye-dialect
Mark A Mandel
mam at THEWORLD.COM
Wed Sep 10 21:44:21 UTC 2003
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
#My point is that "sez" does not reflect pronunciation at all in the
#influence it has on the reader. Even though the speaker says "sez,"
#the "respelling" causes the reader to think that the speaker being
#represented by the respelling is dull, uneducated, back-woodsish,
#etc..... So eye-dialect (still 'traditionally') is defined as a
#respelling which DOES NOT reflect any pronunciation different from
#one suggested by the "standard" spelling.
Exactly: does not reflect any pronunciation DIFFERENT FROM ONE SUGGESTED
BY THE "STANDARD" SPELLING. Not "do[es] not reflect pronunciation", as
you wrote earlier. "Difference" is part of the definition.
-- Mark A. Mandel
Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
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