[Dixielandjazz] Disfluencies

[Bill Gunter]

Hi Don and all,

You wrote:

>There you go, Bill --dis-sing us. Disfluencies -- the halting, stopping, or
>opposition of fluencies - creating an inability to talk in a fluent and
>understandable manner.

So, you do know what it means!


>Sort of  like encountering a curvaceous naked lady
>when you least expected to and try to carry on a normal conversation at the
>moment.

Don't you just hate it when that happens?

>Seems to be a made up word -- not unusual in the every changing English
>language, but then many still think "ain't" ain't in the dictionary -- but
>'tis so.

I ain't arguing!

>However, have a  caution. Splicing words together doesn't always work.
>Consider the common error of saying irregardless. Regardless of good 
>intent,
>it's wrong, wrong, wrong.

Aha, there you go again, dissing a perfectly good English (American) word 
("irregardless"). People tend to sneer at the construction claiming it to be 
a double negative. I dont have no problems with double negatives and 
consider them to be perfectly normal language forms. Such forms may not be 
"standard" English, but they are, nevertheless, in common usage and have 
become part of the vernacular. Standard English acceptance is probably not 
far behind. I'm not sure  about "disregardless" . . . probably not used very 
often, if at all.

Here's a toast to the new year . . .

Bill
jazzboard at hotmail.com

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