email problem

[Sam Clements]

I didn't see anything except spam.

Sam Clements
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From: "Tom Zurinskas" <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 21:14
Subject: email problem


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> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
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>> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:30:09 +0000
>> From: truespel at HOTMAIL.COM
>> Subject: Re: Hoarse, four, mourning etc.
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>> Sender: American Dialect Society
>> Poster: Tom Zurinskas
>> Subject: Re: Hoarse, four, mourning etc.
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>> I wonder which pronunciation of "for" is most frequent. m-w.com lists
>> ~fer first.
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>> Main Entry: 1for
>> Pronunciation: \fər, (ˈ)fȯr, Southern also (ˈ)fär\
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>> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
>> see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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>>> Sender: American Dialect Society
>>> Poster: Laurence Horn
>>> Subject: Re: Hoarse, four, mourning etc.
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>>> At 10:01 AM -0400 7/2/10, Mark Mandel wrote:
>>>>I use "4" for "for" in text-messaging, and AFAIK I don't pronounce them
>>>>differently, apart from stress-related difference.
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>>> Same here (well, same here if I used text messaging), but I suspect
>>> that even text messagers (as I would also refer to them) who
>>> distinguish the vowels in question would "forgive" the (relatively
>>> slender) difference in this context and use the abbreviation. I
>>> remember all of us in high school writing things like "2 Good 2 B
>>> 4-Got-10" without pronouncing "forgotten" like 4-Got-10"
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>>> LH
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>>>>Sideslipping: Interesting that you use "messengers" here. I would use
>>>>"messagers", from the (recent?) verb "to message" 'to send a message',
>>>>reserving "messenger" for 'one who carries a message'.
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>>>>m a m
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>>>>On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Margaret Lee wrote:
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>>>>> Do you think that text messengers, advertisers and others who use the
>>>>> number 4 in place of 'for' make a distinction in the pronunciation of
>>>>> four
>>>>> and for?
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>>>>> --Margaret Lee
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