Heard on Jerry Springer: European-American _BIN + PrP

[Darla Wells]

And there is the continuing action...I DONE BIN cheatin' on you...
Darla

2010/9/8 Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com>:
> ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Heard on Jerry Springer: European-American _BIN + PrP
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thirty-ish, Southern-white male speaker confronting his girlfriend:
>
> "I _BIN cheatin' on_ you!"
>
>
> I've heard this structure used by white speakers about as often as
> I've heard the structure, "BIN _told_ you," as opposed to "BIN
> _tellin'_ you," from black speakers: rarely.
>
> Further deponent sayeth not.
>
> --
> -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
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>



--
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible
warning. -Catherine Aird

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org