Re: dialectal diversity in English
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 18, 2003, 3:45 |
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Tristan McLeay wrote:
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> Stone Gordonssen wrote:
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> >> > [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 ??
Carpet-baggers. Old colloquialism for Northerners who came down to the
South after Reconstruction. Originally, as I understand it, the term
referred to people who were too poor to own a proper suitcase, and so
carried their possessions in a bag made from carpet material.
> 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??
/fIt/ is a common pronunciation of "fought" So, "Actually, there was
them folks [=those people] from North Carolina what [=who] fought for
the Union, but them's [=they're] turncoats, not baggers"
> What does [b&:gVrz] mean though??
Short for "carpet-baggers" [see above], I assume
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you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." -
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