"you pays your money"

[Joanne M. Despres]

Okay, here's the passage from Twain.  It's in chapter 28.  Apparently this
happens during an auction of the decedent's goods, not during the funeral.
"The old man" would be the king.

Joanne

Well, they held the auction in the public square, along towards the end of
the afternoon, and it strung along, and strung along, and the old man he
was on hand and looking his level pisonest, up there longside of the
auctioneer, and chipping in a little Scripture now and then, or a little goody-
goody saying of some kind, and the duke he was around goo-gooing for
sympathy all he knowed how, and just spreading himself generly.
But by and by the thing dragged through, and everything was sold --
everything but a little old trifling lot in the graveyard. So they'd got to work
that off -- I never see such a girafft as the king was for wanting to swallow
EVERYTHING. Well, whilst they was at it a steamboat landed, and in
about two minutes up comes a crowd a-whooping and yelling and laughing
and carrying on, and singing out:
"HERE'S your opposition line! here's your two sets o' heirs to old Peter
Wilks -- and you pays your money and you takes your choice!"


On 16 Aug 2007, at 11:15, Beverly Flanigan wrote:

> Thanks.  I taught that article for years but couldn't recall which of many
> Gumperz pieces gave the definition.  (It's shifty anyway; Fishman defines
> it differently, I believe.)  And thanks too for the transcription
> correction; of course it's dInIs!
>
> BTW, when I define the term, I sometimes quote an example from Larry Horn,
> who once on this list used both "sho' nuff" and "mutatis mutandis" in the
> same comment!  Half the class doesn't understand the first one, and no one
> understands the second.
>
> Beverly
>
> At 05:00 PM 8/15/2007, you wrote:
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> >Subject:      Re: "you pays your money"
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> >On Aug 15, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
> >
> > > ... they should be able to tell it isn't authentic
> > > in me but is used for effect (what Gumperz, I think, calls "metaphoric
> > > code-switching").
> >
> >J. P. Blom & J. J. Gumperz, Code-switching in Norway, in Dell Hymes,
> >Directions  in Sociolinguist0ics (1972)
> >
> > > Our friend dinis, on the other hand, can apparently get
> > > away with this more than I can, assuming leveling etc. are part of his
> > > authentic childhood (and adult?) voice.
> >
> >ah, but dInIs has Linguistic License (issued to him, i believe, forty
> >years ago in wisconsin).
> >
> >arnold
> >
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