Date:  Thu, 11 Aug 1994 18:11:15 -0500

From:  mftcf[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UXA.ECN.BGU.EDU

Subject: Re: P.S. re Eye Dialect



On Thu, 11 Aug 1994, Natalie Maynor wrote:



> (This p.s. may be posted before my original, which I haven't seen

> distributed yet.) I was just thinking back on what I wrote a few

> minutes ago (or what I think I wrote -- I never save copies) and am

> pretty sure I worded things in a weird way -- often the case in my

> e-mail. I think I said something like "I consider 'whut' and 'wuz'

> eye dialect even though they represent ordinary pronunciation" when

> what I really meant was "because they represent ordinary pronunciation."

> There's a reason I wrote what I did, but I won't bore you with the

> interesting (to me only) wandering of my thoughts at the time. I was

> developing a new theory -- but it crashed.

>  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)

>

Sorry, natalie. I posted my other thing before I saw this.



Tim