OT: "Ai kama zimba zimba zayo"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Exposure to Wilson's eye-dialect has made it impossible for me to say "/hou
n^v@ lEv@/.  It comes keeps coming out "ho levvuh nuvvuh," "whole nevvuh
luvvuh," etc.

Thus the creation of IPA.

JL

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Ow. I didn't see the 'postrophe at first, and I was really wondering what
> the ho was doin' in thay-uh. (White guy's attempt at eye dialect.)
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> Mark
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> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > "... take it to a 'ho' nuvvuh levvuh"
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> > It's the catchphrase of a MadTV actor, one of whose personae is the
> > stone soul brother who study be ready t' take thangs to "a 'ho' nuvvuh
> > levvuh" or "to thuh HNL." [aitch. in. ale]
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