From: "Elliott Lash" <erelion12@...>
Subject: Re: [p] <-> [k_W] ( was Re: /s/ vs /z/)
> --- Joe Fatula <fatula3@...> wrote:
> > From: "Stone Gordonssen"
> > <stonegordonssen@...>
> > Subject: Re: [p] <-> [k_W] ( was Re: /s/ vs /z/)
> >
> >
> > > The dialects from South Carolina are closer to
> > being a seperate language
> > > than are the ones from West Virginia. :)
> > >
> > > [A:m V "fIk.sIn t@ tEl jv ...]
> >
> > And what does this mean?
>
>
> I guess something like
> "I'm going to tell you"
> "I'm a-fixin' ta tell ya"
Oh. I was trying to imagine the sorts of phonological changes here, and was
thinking this was something like "alma fixen't tellia".