RE: "Addy and other slang" (was If you don't want people to knowy our age...)

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Dubin, David [mailto:David -dot- Dubin -at- sage -dot- com] smirked:

For
> example, I am a Southerner and I will speak differently to a family
> member who is not familiar with my professional jargon than I 
> will with
> a work colleague who understands the jargon and who is also from the
> South. On the other hand, if I speak with a work colleague from the
> North or from California, I attempt to leave the dialectal 
> elements out
> of my speech patterns to ensure understandability. For some strange
> reason, Northerners and Californians cannot distinguish the 
> words "oil"
> and "all", "fire" and "for", and "tire" and "tar" when most 
> Southerners speak. ;^}}

Or "right" and "rat"...

So, don't speak of those subjects. There are plenty of 
others available.

Um, when y'all write to your homies, d'y'all _write_ in dialect?

<gdr&h>

Kevin (who knows a guy named Dale, who's Momma calls him Day-ah-oh-ah-ull)

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Gimme thet rat, raht nayow, eh?    (Southern Canadian)

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