OT--dialects ("fixin' to")

[Trina]

No: HPFGUIDX 9155

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Victoria McLure" <vmclure at h...> 
wrote:
I teach freshman composition at a rural community college and believe 
me, the dialect has not died out!  Anyone got a formula for an anti-
dialect potion?  Perhaps an aerosal  variety??

And why would we want to do a thing like that?  Then we would all 
sound like newscastes and the beauty of regional language would be 
gone.  Besides, can you imagine Hagrid and Dumbledore sounding 
*exactly* the same?  

Trina (it's a dialect not a disorder)