----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristan McLeay" <kesuari@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: dialectal diversity in English
> Stone Gordonssen wrote:
>
> >> > [yVr "d{@diz "f{:mli dIn h{v noU "k7r`pEt_} "b{:gVrz
> >> > InIt_} dI:t]?
> >
> Your daddy's family don't have no carpet?? baggers?? isn't it ??
"in it, does it", is the last one...
> >> [DVmz fA:tn w@rdz bVb]
> >
> Them's fighten words Bob.
"bub", I think.
> >> [&kSVli D@r wVz DIm folks frVm
> >> narT k@rlAn@ whVt fIt f@r d@ ju:njn bVt DImz tVrnkots
> >> nat b&gVrz]
> >
> Actually, there was those people [you pronounce the L in 'folk'?] from
> North Carolina that were fit for the Union but those turncoats not
baggers??
[DImz], I think, is "they're".
> > ["moUs.t 7 DIm tV"b&ki 4ItS foUks frVm "nar`Tk&r`"lajn7 "maj;tVz wEl bI
> > "b&:gVrz] [Dej sVr &int "s7DnVr`z]
>
> Most of them tobacco?-rich folks from North Carolina might as well be
> baggers?? They sure(? shouldn't it be /SVr/?) ain't southerners.
>
> What does [b&:gVrz] mean though??
From context, I suppose it's a derogatory term for Northerners.
> --
> Tristan <kesuari@...>
>