Re: Story - TCOAIW

David peterson wrote, in blue on cyan (what's with that? just wondering.
it's...odd. but recognizable.)


Kendra wrote:

<<I tend to be too informal in everything, so I may be a step below the
accepted   level of formality. Even when I'm trying to write formally,
though, I think I'd rarely use (I just wrote youse. agh!) "do not;"
actualyl, I think "does not" is more likely than "do not," but then again,
that may be because Iwould rarely even say "don't" because one should always
avoid personal pronouns in essays, or so say my teachers. :)>>

> This is one of the things that really bothers me in the fiction class I'm
in.  Everyone seems to think that you're > not allowed to use contractions,
so they always write things like "do not", "does not", "would not", "will
not", > "he is", etc.  And it's like, "That ain't English anymore."  I
always cross out things like "he is" and write "he's" > above it when I read
them.  And, man!  When I get my credential, that's "no personal pronoun"
"rule" is > going to be the first thing to get the boot.

Aww, I like that rule. :)

<<Yep. :) I'm not sure how often triple contractions occur. you'dn't've is
probably more like... I don't know how to transliterate
j@.Vd@nth@v , wutthan jud@nth@v
though the last @ is more like the vowel in look/cook/put, though I don't
even have a clue which vowel that is.>>

>When I pronounce it, it comes out as ['jMn@].  So, like, "You'dn't've gone
if he did, would you've?"  >Pronounced [jMna gA:n @f hi dI:d, wUdZM @v]
(Hey, that very last contraction is a neat thing in and of >itself, isn't
it?  It's like I don't want it to be a contraction, but I pronounce it like
"of" not "have".)

I don't know what M is, it isn't on my ... thingy. American R? *no idea*

That's probably a more common pronunciation. I would say "You'dn't've gone
if he did, would've you?," though. :)

> <<I speak really fast English; a lot of my words run together. So I'm
probably
> not representative of my dialect in general. It's still funny to realize
> that I do say that. :)>>
> Where you from?  If you're from Southern California, you could be a part
of my growing number of examples > of have of the distinct Southern
California dialect starting to form.  :)  Fun, fun, fun...

Yep, Southern California. However, it may be interesting to note that
everyone else I know either speaks slowly (more common), or speaks in quick
bursts with lots of "ums" and repeated last words (less common.) I get
yelled at a lot for not making sense and/or speaking too quickly, usually a
combination of both. "Pass me the stapler" usually turns into something like
[p&mistej@] (I can't remember when to use which brackets either... but it
looks better with some sort of brackets. Ah, I am abitrary) and so forth. My
sister and mother can understand this, everyone else just gives me odd
looks. :)

Oddly enough, while I remember the liason in french, I usually mess up and
leave it out when I'm speaking, despite the amazing amount of word mashing I
do.

-Kendra
http://www.refrigeratedcake.com
http://www.refrigeratedcake.com/comics/theatre -- Vade Mecum (comic)


-David

"imDeziZejDekp2wilDez ZejDekkinel..."
"You can celebrate anything you want..."
               -John Lennon

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