"slurring"?

[Tom Zurinskas]

"Slurring?" Wussat?  Wa jew meen?  Actually that term works fine for me.  Actually applying truespel to streetlang does a good job.


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> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:44:25 -0500
> From: w_a_palmer at BELLSOUTH.NET
> Subject: Re: "slurring"?
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Poster: Bill Palmer
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> 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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>> 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.
>> ------Original Message------
>> From: Bill Palmer
>> Sender: ADS-L
>> To: ADS-L
>> ReplyTo: ADS-L
>> Subject: Re: [ADS-L] ADS-L Digest - 20 Feb 2009 to 21 Feb 2009 (#2009-53)
>> Sent: Feb 22, 2009 7:43 AM
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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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>> Subject: Re: ADS-L Digest - 20 Feb 2009 to 21 Feb 2009 (#2009-53)
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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.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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