'sup?

[Beverly Flanigan]

Yes, I wondered about that.  Surely it isn't everywhere in AAVE?

At 08:02 PM 10/19/2004, you wrote:
>Let's lay off /hw/ as AAVE unless we add some regional provisos.
>
>dInIs
>
>
>>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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>>>>>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?
>>
>>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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