'sup?

[Alice Faber]

Beverly Flanigan said:
>At 05:02 PM 10/19/2004, you wrote:
>>On Oct 19, 2004, at 3:43 PM, William Stone wrote:
>>
>>>---------------------- Information from the mail header
>>>-----------------------
>>>Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>>>Poster:       William Stone <W-Stone at NEIU.EDU>
>>>Subject:      Re: 'sup?
>>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>--------
>>>
>>>In the northwest suburbs of Chicago, 'sup' is very much a Caucasian
>>>teen greeting.  African-American teens all seem to use a flapped
>>>'whatup'
>>
>>FWIW, on an episode of Law & Order, a black adult refers to a group of
>>black teenagers as a group of "[hw^D^ps]," where "D" is the SPE symbol
>>for flapped "t." Law & Order is set in the City, but who knows where
>>the writers get their BE slang from from?
>>
>>-Wilson Gray
>
>With [hw] or my plain-vanilla [w]?  What city is L&O set in?  (Shows my
>crime show ignorance!)


L&O is set in New York, and actually filmed there for the most part.


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