origin of dese dem dose in NYCE

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> _"Zis is somesing I got from ze supermarket."_ And this
> remains with most of them for decades if not permanently, no matter how
> fluent they are.

That's the way that Morris Halle, a Lettish-American who came to the
United States in 1940, at the age of seventeen, sounds when he gets
excited. E.g., "Underlyingly, bawss of zem are ze same!" as he
emphasized a point of an exposition during a introductory-phonology
lecture. Otherwise, he sounds, IMO, perfectly ordinary.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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-Mark Twain

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