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Re: dialectal diversity in English

From:Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>
Date:Sunday, May 18, 2003, 1:22
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 ??
>> [DVmz fA:tn w@rdz bVb] >
Them's fighten words Bob.
>> [&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??
> ["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?? -- Tristan <kesuari@...>

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