flyting and rap

[Wilson Gray]

Of course. What else would it be? And the standard eye-dialect
spelling is "two-faced-ed." There's no point in using eye-dialect, if
you're just going to Uncle-Remus it, so that only someone who's heard
the original speaker can figure out what you mean without having to
study over it.

-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain



On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> In this sentence --
>
>> /Another such
>>    reduplicative or interruptive syllable still in use among American
>>    Negro reciters today --- who do not say "toastisses," so far as I
>>    know --- is "two-faceted," meaning having two faces, not two facets;
>>    as quoted in Bruce Jackson's /Get Your Ass In the Water /(1974) p.
>>    101: "But it's hell to learn when you have to burn for some
>>    two-faceted cocaine broad."
>
> -- I bet the word transcribed "two-faceted" has 3 syllables, not four:
>  /tu: feistId/ rather than /tu: faesItId/
> as if "two-faced" + "-ed". Seems likelier in the register, makes more
> sense, and scans better.
>
> Mark Mandel
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