Re: Odd construct

At 11:02 2001-10-15 +0200, daniel andreasson wrote:
>Andreas:
>
> > Well, you don't need to "hit" something to "slå" it! _Rekordet är
>20m - om
> > du slår't [slo:rt`] vinner du ett pris._ Or you might want to _slå
>sönder
> > ett glas_ or something. Tho' is hardly a very common thing to say for
>me
> > either.
>
>Do you say _slå sönder't_? I have _re_ in all cases.
>
> > BTW, what'd you say about an expression like _seru't inte?_ ["se:r8t
>int@]
> > "Don't you see it?"? I say things like that quite frequently.
>
>I say something like ["se:r8'r@nt@] or ["se:r8'rn=t@]
>
>||| daniel
Me, speaking a west-coast dialect elide the /r/ instead, so you get
["se:d8dInt@], with a rounded [@] at that.

I think that the _'t_ and _'n_ contractions are dying out, or already have
died out, among younger people except for those few that still speak more
traditional dialect.  They were a common spoken-language marker in
literature until about 50 years ago but sound old-fashioned today.



/BP 8^)>
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