Re: USAGE: intrusive "r" [was Re: (Offlist) Re: ASCII IPA]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 23:11:39 -0500 "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>
writes:
> Quoting "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>:
> > So, in both cases, South Dakotan _idear_ and Texan _cuss_, it
> seems
> > the odd addition or lack of rhoticness is defined in the UR.
> I forgot to add that _cuss_ is a separate lexical entry
> from _curse_.  The distinction is whether you're invoking
> the supernatural or not: with the former, you aren't, with
> the latter, you are.
> Thomas Wier
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Not necessarily, at least from my experience.  I never remember hearing
"cuss" in a natural, 'living language' context when i was growing up, and
i still hardly ever hear it except from people who speak a substantially
different dialect of English from mine.  We always distinguished between
"mummy's curse" (your latter) and "curse word" (=cuss, your fomer), sort
of like the way that people who have a /E/~/I/ merger distinguish between
"safety pin" and "fountain pen".


-Stephen (Steg)
 "And indeed the most ancient songs of the Elves, of which echoes are
remembered still in the West, tell of the shadow-shapes that walked in
the hills above Cuivienen, or would pass suddenly over the stars; and of
the dark Rider upon his wild horse that pursued those that wandered to
take them and devour them."
     ~ JRR Tolkien's _The Silmarillion_
 |i uhmzu-dasyem sha'athram-a sudraflepm-a dhum-a
  "taorei sparofoineiwa" - aurdzaasht-a tza'foineim
  oolu-trorip...|
 (and they named those dark places
  "tauree spaaroophuineewaa" - the forest of
  hunting shadows...)

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