Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"

[Tom Zurinskas]

Using "won't" for "wasn't" -  I've never heard that one.  so it won't me.

I was in East NC and heard some of the thickest southern dialect I've ever heard.  And I've spent some time in E Tenn and SW Va.  E NC takes the cake.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
see truespel.com




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> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:52:03 -0500
> From: w_a_palmer at BELLSOUTH.NET
> Subject: Re: Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Poster: Bill Palmer
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> Well, I appreciate that explanation.
>
> So let me move on to a question that I think this list is supposed to
> address. If not, then just slam-dunk me.
>
> In North Carolina, where I live, and particularly in the eastern part, there
> is a tendency to use "won't" to mean "was not" or "were not".
> Ex: Q: "Who ate that last piece of pie?"
> A: "It won't me".
>
> Does this practice exist anywhere else? I have lived in and travelled thru
> much of the South, and don't recall hearing it anywhere else.
>
> Bill Palmer
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> From: "Scot LaFaive"
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> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 7:38 PM
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>> I will readily admit that Ron does speak openly, almost painfully so,
>> about
>> what displeases him, but any anger directed toward Tom isn't because he
>> dare
>> violate some traditionalist doctrine. It's because he continually says the
>> same thing without regard for what people more knowledgeable in the field
>> than him are saying. It's like if I went on a biology forum with the
>> little
>> I know of the science and proclaimed various ideas that experts in the
>> field
>> knew to be false, but I didn't listen anyway and just kept on trucking.
>> It's
>> rather offensive after awhile.
>>
>> Scot
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/20/09, Bill Palmer wrote:
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>>> I'm new to this list, but a veteran of many others. I expected more
>>> elevated discourse from the professorate, from which I'm guessing most of
>>> these posts originate.
>>>
>>> Of what value is the nastiness found so regularly in this forum, except
>>> to
>>> distract from whatever topic is under discussion?
>>>
>>> Obviously TZ dares to violate borders that are jealously guarded by the
>>> traditionalists.
>>>
>>> Bill Palmer
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>>>> The point of "how like him" is that TZ rarely answers posts that
>>>> directly
>>>> co=
>>>> ntradict his positions--he simply ignores them. There is no rational
>>>> discour=
>>>> se with him, only his continued insistence that his opinions are facts,
>>>> even=
>>>> when they are contradicted by basic findings of linguistic science.
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>>>>
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>>>> Not that your opinion of what is or is not "insulting" is relevant. If
>>> you
>>>> t=
>>>> hink that I or anyone else is being unnecessarily abusive, report the
>>>> incide=
>>>> nt to the list owner. Your lectures on bad manners are in themselves,
>>>> arroga=
>>>> nt, insulting, and irrelevant.=C2=A0
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Randy Alexander
>>>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>>> Sent: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 6:52 pm
>>>> Subject: Re: [ADS-L] Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"
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>>>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:39 AM, wrote:
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>>>>> But how like him to ignore the evidence and cling tenaciously to an
>>>>> irreleva=3D
>>>>> nt statistic in support of an impossible course of action.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Insulting wording. How about:
>>>> But he is ignoring the evidence and clinging tenaciously to an
>>>> irrelevant
>>>> statistic in support of an impossible course of action.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Randy Alexander
>>>> Jilin City, China
>>>> My Manchu studies blog:
>>>> http://www.bjshengr.com/manchu
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