[Ads-l] Do y'all know about this?

[Galen Buttitta]

"Forget about it. No one speaks like that anymore."

> On Jan 24, 2015, at 12:35, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Huh?
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> JL
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> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com>
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>> Foe geda bow dit.  Ain no buddy speaks lie dat no moe.
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>> Tom Zurinskas=2C  Originally SWConn 20 yrs=2C  college Tenn 3=2C  work NJ
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>> 33=2C  now FL 12.The need for truespel phonetics -
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>> spelnow=20
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>>> Date: Sat=2C 24 Jan 2015 07:57:49 -0500
>>> From: wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
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>>> Wow!  They learned to speak over 150 years ago!
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>>> JL
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>>> On Fri=2C Jan 23=2C 2015 at 10:45 PM=2C Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com>
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>>>> Part 1 Hear Former Slaves Speak
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D3VTFkyDrH3M
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>>>> You can hear the speaker say=2C
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>>>> marsta=2C mississ=2C chillun=2C gwine=2C cotched=2C full (as a
>> verb)=2C=
>> wear (someone)
>>>> out =3D "give (someone) a beating=2C" etc.
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>>>> Otherwise=2C IMO=2C the speaker could be any random black speaker of
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>>>> talking.
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>>>> All say=2C "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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>>>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>>>> -Mark Twain
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