Klarinet Archive - Posting 000194.txt from 2010/11

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Jennifer's question
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:05:22 -0500

On 14 Nov 2010, at 19:30, Keith Bowen wrote:

> ... but whatever, there was no intention to hurt you, Jennifer.

Absolutely not.

Does 'spozed' have a bad connotation to you?

I sometimes use it in what I think of as a sort of tribute to a man called James Herndon, who wrote a lovely book called, "The way it spozed to be" which had a big impact on me when I read it many years ago. (It was about his experiences teaching kids English in a quite dysfunctional school in America.)

As well as being quite a nice word, I think, it has a slightly tongue-in-cheek quality, as though to raise an eyebrow at whoever thinks of themselves as constituting the Authority behind the 'spozed'.

Actually, I found your question interesting, and it gave me pause.

Tony
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