Fw: Re: ATD 397, Vernacular, dialect??

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I've lived in Brooklyn my whole life, and when I read this passage, the accent struck me as Damon Runyon-esque -- a sort of quaint early 20th Century Hell's Kitchen (West side of Manhattan) tough-guy patter.  Traces of the Irish accent in it.

Brooklynese is more:

You gotta problum wit dat?  Whaddya tink I yam, stooopid or somt'n?

Laura

>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>>Sent: Dec 1, 2006 11:38 AM
>>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>Subject: ATD 397, Vernacular, dialect??
>>
>>What kind of vernacular is Pynchon immitating here?
>>
>>"So yiz paid double f' sumt'in's only good in Chicago ten yeeuhz ago? etc.
>>
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