Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)
| From: | Tommie L Powell <tommiepowell@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 10, 2001, 7:16 |
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 Frank George Valoczy wrote:
> Tommie L Powell wrote:
> > My people (Washington State immigrants from
> > eastern Oklahoma) said [ajdi:] for "idea" but it
> > meant a proposal or intention (not a notion).
>
> /hej, aj @v a grejt ajdi:/
> is an example of what I'd say...
>
Very good example! And a sentence such as
"That's my idea of heaven" made no sense in my
people's dialect. Instead, you'd have to say
"That's my notion of heaven."
--Tommie