Unemployment lingo

[Doug Harris]

As there any relationship, in terms of user groups, between "double past endings"
and what I'll call 'hiccupped double possessives' such as breastes-ez?
dh

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----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Received: 3/9/2009 12:01:24 PM
Subject: Re: Unemployment lingo


>Are the people who use "rifted" black? Use of doubled past endings
>like "riffed-ed" is liked-ed in BE. Of course, speakers could
>re-analyzing "riffed" as "rift," so "rifted" wouldn't be a doubled
>past, in that case.

>-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.
>-----
>-Mark Twain



>On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Dave Hause <dwhause at jobe.net> wrote:
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>> FWIW, this may have been originally primarily military:  during  Vietnam, a
>> fair number of career enlisted men had gone through officer candidate school
>> because the tradtional West Point and ROTC production wasn't keeping up with
>> the mortality for second lieutenant platoon leaders; Â survivors got promoted
>> up to about major during the war, but as the force shrunk, many of these
>> didn't have the education the Army wanted. Â The reduction in force then
>> didn't totally force people out but many reverted to their previous enlisted
>> grades to remain until they could retire; Â I believe the same thing happened
>> after WWII and Korea. Â Locally (Ft. Leonard Wood, MO), I hear people who
>> have undergone this describe themselves as having been "rifted" rather than
>> "riffed." Â Happens with the civil service work force now, rather than the
>> military.
>> Dave Hause, dwhause at jobe.net
>> Waynesville, MO
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>> From: "Herb Stahlke" <hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM>
>> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>> Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 5:38 PM
>> Subject: Re: Unemployment lingo
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>> I've heard RIF mostly from teachers and local school boards.
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