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

From:Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 24, 2003, 16:42
> > I'm always suspicious of "all", "every", etc. (overt or implied) > > when applied to language across any dispersed groups of people. > >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".
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.
>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. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail