'sup?

[Wilson Gray]

On Oct 19, 2004, at 5:22 PM, Beverly Flanigan wrote:

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> At 05:02 PM 10/19/2004, you wrote:
>> On Oct 19, 2004, at 3:43 PM, William Stone wrote:
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>>> Poster:       William Stone <W-Stone at NEIU.EDU>
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>>> In the northwest suburbs of Chicago, 'sup' is very much a Caucasian
>>> teen greeting.  African-American teens all seem to use a flapped
>>> 'whatup'
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>> 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?
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>> -Wilson Gray
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> With [hw] or my plain-vanilla [w]?  What city is L&O set in?

With [hw], which is typical of BE. And the City is THE City. New York
City. I personally don't care much for the place, but I gotta give it
its props.

-Wilson Gray

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