Re: CHAT: Ebonic Xmass
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 13, 2000, 15:15 |
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"Daniel A. Wier" wrote:
> And also you have a florid form of a sort of 'high-falootin'
> English' found among Southern preachers, complete with overenunciations and
> artificially ornate words.
J. L. Dillard refers to this as "Fancy Talk", and quotes several samples
of it in _Black English_. A common ending to a Fancy Talk oration was at one
time "And now, ladies and gentlemen, I must redound to my sanctum sanctorum".
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