Heard on The Judges
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From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:11:04
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Subject: Re: [ADS-L] Heard on The Judges
At 2:16 PM -0400 3/24/08, Dennis Preston wrote:
>Me too, and folk (linguists who don't know squat) keep tellin me I
>"can't" say "I'se" for "I was."
>
Hey, some of us linguists know squat.
LH
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>>C'mown, now! I'se (I was) jes' funnin' wit chawl! I have to
>>continually remind myself that my comments on dialect generally refer
>>to what was true in the '40's, '50's, '60's, and '70's and are not
>>necessarily true, today. Though, given that these years seem like only
>>yesterday, my comments should still be valid in the present. :-)
>>
>>FWIW, I know lots of WE speakers who use "I'se" for "I was." It seems
>>to be an obvious-enough development.
>>
>>-Wilson
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>>On 3/24/08, Dennis Preston <preston at msu.edu> wrote:
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>>> I agree; when I say I am from Louisville, its important to know lots
>>> of stuff, including DOB; younguns there now conflate /hw/-/w/ and
>>> there is even a rumor of the low-back merger being sighted (auded?)
>>> on the eastern edge of the city. To the ramparts!
>>>
>>> dInIs
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>>> >From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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>>> >
>>> >> Ah, there's really no need to be so specific about DOB. Sen. Specter
>>> >> of PA was on the Daily Show, the other night and, for some reason, Jon
>>> >> asked him his age. Specter's reply was approximately as follows:
>>> >
>>> >> "The other day, while I was looking at my birth certificate, I decided
>>> >> that something so trivial that had happened so long ago was no longer
>>> >> worthy of mention."
>>> >
>>> >> He shoots! He scores!
>>> >
>>> >> Yes, I admit that, when I was but a mere stripling of your age, I
>>> >> enjoyed letting people know that I was an adult. I had such a baby
>>> >> face that I was still being carded at the age of 36. As has often been
>>> >> said, "Those were the good old days!" And, as has been said just as
>>> >> often, "Those days are gone forever."
>>> >
>>> >No, just included year of birth 'cause the area i grew up in has been
>>> >going through some pretty severe and rapid linguistic changes over the
>>> >last century--so the *when* is pretty much as important as the where for
>>> >that community.
>>> >
>>> >Specter's line is pretty good, though.
>>> >
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>>come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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