Fw: [ADS-L] "slurring"?

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

But "careless speech" is not a term that has any scientific basis or use. It explains nothing whatever.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at BELLSOUTH.NET>

Date:         Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:44:25
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: [ADS-L] "slurring"?


Altho I wasn't the first to use the term in this particular thread, let me
substitute "careless speech"

Bill Palmer

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Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 10:31 AM
Subject: "slurring"?


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> What do y'all mean by "slurring"? It refers informally to the speech of
> the brain-damaged and drunks -- which is not a significant cause of
> linguistic change.
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> From: Bill Palmer
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> I do not doubt that it could have originated as a non-rhotic form of
> "weren't", but it is now too widespread to be simply a result of slurring,
> IMHO.
>
> Bill P
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>> In a message dated 2/22/2009 12:00:19 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> LISTSERV at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU writes:
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>>>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.
>>>
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>> Sounds like a slurring between "it wasn't me" and "it weren't me," both
>> of
>> which I've heard.  Possible?
>>
>> Rosemarie
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>> on
>> the  inside.
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