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

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 10:57:31 -0700 Stone Gordonssen
<stonegordonssen@...> writes:
> I'm always suspicious of "all", "every", etc. (overt or implied)
> when applied to language across any dispersed groups of people.
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I *know* that isn't spoken by all African Americans, or spoken only by
African Americans.  That doesn't change the fact that the dialect (or
group of related dialects?) i'm referring to is called "AAVE".

> >"if you've gots the poison, I've gots the remedy"
> Except this, in the piedmont, would have been "if you gots the
> poison, I gots the remedy."
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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.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "oom."  ~ woc