End of ADS-L Digest - 9 Dec 1993 to 11 Dec 1993

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There are 8 messages totalling 182 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. some U.S. "Midland" regionalisms (2)

 2. name that decade (5)

 3. some U.S. "Midland" regional



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Date:  Sun, 12 Dec 1993 11:35:55 EST

From:  BERGDAHL%A1.OUVAX.mrgate[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

Subject: Re: some U.S. "Midland" regionalisms



From:  NAME: David Bergdahl

    FUNC: English

    TEL: (614) 593-2783          <BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]A1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAX>

To:   NAME: MX%"ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu" <MX%"ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu"[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MRGATE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAX>



Another way of thinking about Don Lance's "tentativity" is that it's a hedge.

Robin Lakoff suggested that hedges were more apt to be produced by women, but

rather than gender I think age is now involved. I remember 25 yrs. ago when I

first came to Ohio that progressives were being used on verbs I'd never heard on

before, but now I hardly ever hear them with eastern ears. Dopes anyone else

think of them as 'a generational thing'?



David Bergdahl Ohio University/Athens

BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU