terminology question

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 06:52:44AM -0500, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
> Jesse,
>
> Must "code-switching" be deliberate? When my Wisconsin wife listens
> to me as we drive South, she says I get hillbillier and hillbiller,
> but I do this un(in?)deliberately.
>
> I don't think this is a common requirement for code-switching. The
> major distinction in the literature has been between 'situational'
> versus 'metaphoric.'

I think I was using a highly idiomatic meaning of _deliberately_.
My apologies, you're right of course.

Jesse Sheidlower