Date:  Wed, 25 Oct 1995 07:59:23 EST

From:  Beth Lee Simon <simon[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU>

Subject: Re: upspeak



I want to clarify a couple of points from a post I sent privately to

Lynne. I reported to her an observation made to me by a resident of a

small town in WI that was primarily German settlement. My "informant"

while discussing "upspeak" noted that he had heard it all his life from

what he called "the men in front of the bank," retired and what he called

"old" and "tired" men who sat on the benches, talking to each other

and commenting on life and the twon. This person's descriptives were

"old" "male" "German" and "suffocated and hence willing to suffocate".



I then mentioned to Lynne that I had been wondering about German

sentence intonation in relation to this.



beth simon