Re: bless (adj)

Re: "have a bless day"

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:22:49AM -0500, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> Who've you heard it from?
Retail food employees, security guards, etc.  It is currently
set as the "idle" text message on the cash registers at our local Taco
Bell, which was where I most recently saw it in written form sans -ed.

> Final consonant cluster simplification is a
> common feature not just of AAVE, but of many Southern dialects as well.
> (Which is not surprising, given the two's historical relationship.)
True.  I'm in downtown Atlanta, where "lower income"/"less educated"
correlates very highly with "Black", so it's hard to distinguish which
particular dialect is involved.

> A more interesting question for me is the phrase itself:  is it just
> a passing fad, or more evidence that America is undergoing a so-called
> fourth "Great Awakening"?
Well, I've heard the phrase for a couple years now, so if it's a fad,
it's not passing very quickly.

-Marcos