eye dialect was RE: nekkid

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:46 PM -0400 3/14/11, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>I suggest it was some cartoonist who decided which words to select for
>eye-dialect.
>
>DanG

Wasn't there another motivation underlying the <luv> spelling for
"love"?  Or is that actually just eye-dialect?  I know different
pronunciations are possible--in particular [lUv] rather than
[l^v]--in the U.K., but what I don't know is whether the nonstandard
spelling relates to any nonstandard pronunciation, esp. in the U.S.,
as in the eponymous movie, about which all I recall is the name.

LH

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>On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> quoted:
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>>  > "eye dialect" refers to respelling of words to reflect their unmarked
>>  pronunciation (e.g. _wuz_, ... _uv_ for was, ... of)
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>>  Who was it who decided that these two pronunciations are "unmarked"?
>>  Is the spelling _iz_ ever used as the eye-dialect pronunciation of
>>  _is_? Is there a variety of English in which a citation-pronunciation
>>  other than [Iz] exists, such that its speakers would be motivated to
>>  use _iz_ in their representations of quoted speech to signal to the
>>  reader that outgroup speech is intended?
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