End of ADS-L Digest - 4 Aug 1997 to 5 Aug 1997
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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 5 Aug 1997 to 6 Aug 1997
There are 8 messages totalling 228 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. Informants
 2. HBO and TV
 3. devel. of flaccid /flaesid/ pron.? (3)
 4. Garcia (Marquez)
 5. <No subject given>
 6. Is ... is

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Date:  Wed, 6 Aug 1997 12:59:51 +0100
From:  Aaron Drews <aaron[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]LING.ED.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Informants

    Actually, I'm looking for Americans that have been in some contact
with RP/ScSE for at least a year, and still are in contact with it. "Fresh
off the boat" would be great if I could afford a longitudinal study, but a
three year degree doesn't allow for much.
    Thanks, though,
        Aaron

On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Gregory {Greg} Downing wrote:

}To add to the note copied below -- I attended "ASL" (L for London) together
}with two siblings from 1972-74, though I don't know if you are looking for
}Americans (Michiganders) exposed to British English (and vice versa) from
}*that* far in the past.... I had the virtue and/or vice of being interested
}at that period in language....
}
}Many of the American kids attending ASL at that time were really "right off
}the boat" -- midwesterners and southerners with no prior exposure to British
}English at all, whose fathers were transferred there for a few years to work
}for multinationals or in North Sea oil or the like. It was quite a
}language-shock for a lot of them (leaving the culture-shock aside).
}
}Greg Downing/NYU
}
}At 09:20 PM 8/5/97 -0400, you wrote:
}>Dear Aaron,
}>
}>I suggest you contact the American School in St. John's Wood, London NW8,
}>or another similar establishment in Cobham, Surrey -- you'll find American
}>families thicker than flies at a Methodist picnic.
}>
}>Orin Hargraves
}>
}
}Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nyu.edu or downingg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]is2.nyu.edu
}

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