[Dixielandjazz] Re: Seeking comments re: Additions to "um" word

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Don Kirkman wrote:

<<The lady probably meant "dysfluencies", since "dis-" means 'opposite' or 
'apart from' while "dys-" means 'abnormal' or 'bad'.  I won't dis her, though, 
cuz it might have been a typo.>>

Actually, Don, it wasn't a typo; disfluencies is correct.

As in "disfluencies can make syntactic reanalysis more difficult by coming 
between an ambiguous constituent and a disambiguating item."*

Get it?

Jack Thomas

*Do non-word disfluencies affect syntactic parsing? 
Karl G. D. Bailey and Fernanda Ferreira 
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science Program 
Michigan State University 

the debbil made me do it