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Re: USAGE: NATLANG: I've Gots An English Question

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 24, 2003, 17:07
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:42:12 -0700 Stone Gordonssen
<stonegordonssen@...> writes:
> I was referring to your professors having taken this "all" approach > when > presenting AAVE to your class, not your post itself. Sorry I was > unclear.
- They didn't do that either.
> >It may be that in the song... since i myself use both "i've got" > and "i > >got", a lot of times i have trouble telling if the [v] is there > > when other people say it.
> Music is notoriously difficult for ascertaining pronunication.
- I find it silghtly annoying when music artists don't put lyrics to their songs on their websites, leaving all those lyrics websites (who try to put spyware on my computer) and the rest of us to have to try and figure it out on their own. -Stephen (Steg) "oom." ~ woc (the backwards cow)