Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 18:19:31 EST
From: simon[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU
Subject: Re: RE english-spanish radio ad
Well, no, there wasn't any redundancy in the radio ad, but rather,
a pretty clear case of
1. code-mixing on the numbers
one eight cero cero
and
2. an exclam with "Spanish" phonology
ey (=Eng "hey)--actually, more [e:y]
and
3. a Spanish word that most (?) urban/Chicagoan speakers would know
chica
all said in a big, bluff, come-on voice. Definite pause between
the numbers and the rest:
"one eight cero cero PAUSE [e:y] chica!"
beth simon