End of ADS-L Digest - 18 Nov 1994 to 19 Nov 1994

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There are 14 messages totalling 509 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. "ride the rodeo" (2)

 2. Pigtails (2)

 3. Recent Black English (5)

 4. Anyone familiar with the following expressions?

 5. afterthought on braids (2)

 6. trizzle

 7. stirring the fire



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Date:  Sun, 20 Nov 1994 00:29:39 EST

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Re: "ride the rodeo"



In response to two points raised by Beth Simon:

1) Whether or not Judy Collins sings (as Beth claims)

    When he comes to call, my pa ain't got a good word to say,

    Guess it's cause he's just as wild as in his younger days,

I wouldn't have so processed it because it's totally uninterpretable in this

context, given that the he/his of the second line would have to be

non-coreferential, which they really can't be ("You're just as wild as in my

younger days"?)

2) I too have heard shtr- quite a bit in the New York area, and concurred

with someone on some e-list (I thought it was ours, a few months ago, but

maybe it was Linguist) that it's especially associated with Italian-Americans

born in the 1950's (my citation was Mike Francesa on WFAN sports talk radio,

along with others I now forget).



Larry