End of ADS-L Digest - 6 Mar 1996 to 7 Mar 1996

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There are 14 messages totalling 333 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Inter-variety miscommunication (4)

 2. email usage (2)

 3. Dennis Baron's Proposal

 4. new word? (2)

 5. koofer revisited

 6. More miscommunication (2)

 7. Second Call for Papers (RMADS)

 8. Re(2): new word?



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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