Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 00:38:12 -0800

From: SETH SKLAREY crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IX.NETCOM.COM

Subject: Re: Inter-variety miscommunication



Dennis,

Thanks for your great contribution to this rarely-documented issue.

There was a thread going on it awhile back, but it sort of disappeared.

One of the neatest examples of cross-variety re-interpretation I

ever encountered was from a woman from Beaumont, Texas, whose last name

was Kaiser, with a typical "Confederate vowel" in the first syllable. She

went to a NCTE convention in Boston, and when she gave her name to the clerk

at the hotel registration desk, he promptly wrote it down as Carser !



Rudy

--Rudy Troike (rtroike[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ccit.arizona.edu)



We would be interested in a list of Confederate vowels or a reference to

where they

could be found. Always interested in other languages.



Seth Sklarey

Wittgenstein School of the Unwritten Word

Coconut Grove, FL

crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ix.netcom.com