Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 18, 1999, 5:55 |
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"Raymond A. Brown" wrote:
> To us, "learn'd" sounds distinctly rural & archaic and in stereotype ru=
stic
> speech usually means 'taught' - "Oi learn'd 'im, roight & proper, I did=
".
Fascinating. In the pronunciation "larnd", that association exists
here, too. "Ar" for "er" is stereotypical rustic Southern speech, as in
the joke "How do we know that the Wise men were firemen? Cause they
'came from a far' [i.e., fire]" :-)
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Yaw=EDntasva natab=ED, plan saf=ED nlak=FAsi - Old Kass=ED proverb
The boy dies, giving birth to the man
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