Date:  Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:14:18 -0600

From:  Katherine Catmull <kate[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BGA.COM>

Subject: Re: The great California freeway isogloss revisited



At 9:39 AM 11/30/94 -0600, salikoko mufwene wrote:

>Incidentally, last weekend, in New Orleans, I

>heard somebody (native speaker!) say that XYZ was too busy "watching the TV"

>in the sense of what I have learned to say as "watching TV." Have you also

>noticed this construction or did I just stumble on an idiosyncrasy?



My husband and his family commonly use this construction. They are Cajuns,

and natives of Port Arthur, Texas (on southern part of the Louisiana-Texas

border), if that makes any difference.



Kate Catmull  kate[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]bga.com