ATD question about Lake's speech (217)

[Matthew Cissell]

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From: Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es>
To: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ATD question about Lake's speech (217)

Many of the first people to pass through the Cumberland gap, which allowed passage through the mountians, were catholics from Maryland who wanted to escape the increasing intolerance towards catholics there.
Could the Traverses have crossed the same mountains, albeit further south and a bit later, as Mason and Dixon?

Oh, check out those piled up prepositions. Somebody mentioned that in Munich and I think also in Lublin conferences (same person I believe); he argued it was a way to create disjointed syntax, or something like that. I just recall a british friend teasing me about american phrasal verbs with 3 prepostions. For example. "Y'all betta get on off down the road." People in Chicago do not speak like that.

ciao
mc otis


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From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: ATD question about Lake's speech (217)

What other examples of Appalachian speech by characters can we
identify? And, is the use of "behind" to mean "in the future" or "yet
to come" Appalachian? Maybe it's a mistake.

> The Traverses must have arrived early in the New World, remained isolated in
> Appalachia, until moving west in the 19th Century.
>
> Maybe.