On 1 Feb 2005 at 13:47, Shawn Burns wrote > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jose Marquez [mailto:jhereg69 at earthlink.net] > > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 1:20 PM > > To: Dragaera > > Subject: Re: evolution in languege: OT > > > > MedCat7 at aol.com wrote: > > > > >In a message dated 2/1/2005 3:27:33 PM Eastern Standard > > Time, "Michele Riccio" <mr1 at rcosta.com> writes: > > > > > > > > > > > >>On 31 Jan 2005 at 17:31, MedCat7 at aol.com wrote > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >>>In a message dated 1/31/2005 3:10:46 PM Eastern Standard > > Time, "Shawn > > >>>Burns" <s1burns at ucsd.edu> writes: > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>>Language is like a thingamajig. > > >>>> > > >>>>There is always change and evolution in language, > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>Like "wicked." It really means something evil (or to that > > >>>effect), but the way I, and many New Englanders, use it is to > > >>>mean > > something > > >>>like, "very" or "extremely," only meant more than exteme (if that > > >>> makes sense) (wicked cold, wicked awesome). There ar e other > > ways I use it > > >>>to, but I don't think anyone would understand them as I am > > a strange > > >>>person and say and do many strange things. > > >>> > > >>>-C > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>You left out my favorite - "wicked pissa"! > > >> > > >>M > > >> > > >> > > > > > >Ah, yes, and the eva popula "er" changed to "a." > > >Pak the cah in Havad's yad. > > >I love New England! > > >-C > > > > > > > > Yeah, but there's hardly any parking in Harvard Yard; you > > gotta go on Garden St. or maybe Brattle St. to find anything. > > I usually just leave my cah in my apahtment pahking space, > > and walk the ten minutes to Hahvid instead. > > > > I find, after only seven and a half years in the Boston area > > (Chestnut Hill & Somerville, if you must know), that I don't > > really drop Rs; I add them. I occasionally have trouble with > > Lawr and other such words, but I normally speak in the good > > ol' unaccented Miami dialect. So people mistake me for > > Canadian. I don't know why; every Canadian I've met has had a > > Canadian accent (including my boss). > > > > Jose > > > > Lots of French Canadians in Florida, from all reports. I've an aunt > who retired to Miami in the 70's. Perhaps there is an influence on the > "Miami dialect", although to be seriously confused with Canadian you'd > have to be shortening your dipthongs (ou's in particular). > > I like "unaccented Miami dialect". Everyone thinks they lack an > accent. I speak in an unaccented Canadian dialect; everyone around me > speaks in a California accent. It's the world that's crazy, not me. > > Shawn I've always said that I lack an accent because we Bostonians were here first (yes, OK, first after the native tribes) - and the rest of the country is simply wrong in their pronunciation. ;-) M Michele Riccio mr1 at rcosta.com