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Re: CHAT: Ebonic Xmass

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, January 13, 2000, 15:15
"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". -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)