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"Is you gonter put hit in de paper?"

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Cadzao  #540390  Sat, 12 Jul 08 10:20 AM
William Faulkner wrote (in Do Down, Moses):

"Do you know what se asked me this morning, back there at the station?" he said.
"Probably not," Stevens said.
"She said, 'Is you gonter put hit in de paper?'"
"What?"
"That's what I said," the editor said. "And she said it again: 'Is you gonter put hit in de paper? I wants hit all in de paper. All of hit."
(...) I just said, 'Why, you couldn't read it, Aunty.' And she said, 'Miss Belle will show me whar to look and I can look at hit. You put hit in de paper. All of hit.'"

1. Is you gonter put hit in de paper?" = "Are you going to put it in the paper?" Am I right?
2. Whar to look = "how to look" or "what to look?"

Please help!

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Mr Wordy  #540405  Sat, 12 Jul 08 12:02 PM

1. Yep, I think so.

2. I think it means "where to look".

  
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Marius Hancu  #540406  Sat, 12 Jul 08 12:04 PM
Easy:-)

>"She said, 'Is you gonter put hit in de paper?'"

 "She said, 'Are you going/gonna to put it in the paper?'" [Black dialect

> 'Miss Belle will show me whar to look and I can look at hit.

 'Miss Belle will show me where to look and I can look at it.

 

  
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