Dueling dialects
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Jul 29 17:11:51 UTC 2009
At 12:51 PM -0400 7/29/09, Wilson Gray wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Arnold Zwicky<zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
>> it's not hard to find neighbors, lifelong friends, etc.
>> with conflicting usages.
>
>Exactly my experience, too, arnold.
>--
Mine too, with the codicil that it may not even be that hard to find
individuals with conflicting usages. I think I swing both ways on
this, and I'm not sure what the relevant controlling factors are.
LH
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