Re: (In)transitive verbs
| From: | Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 13, 2004, 10:11 |
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On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Peter Bleackley wrote:
> Staving Andreas Johansson:
> >Looks like nobody agrees about what is regular or
> >irregular in english verbs, ant the same about he
> >number of syllables in an english word.
> >
> >This is quite satisfactory for a foreigner.
>
> Þou scouldst know by now ðat Englisc speakers never agree anyþing about
> ðeir native language. Todo so were far too French!
Are speakers of languages other than English that much more likely to
agree than English speakers? I'd always got the impression that the
standard dialects of English differed by far less than the dialects of
Dutch or German or French, especially given the many millions of us there
are.
--
Tristan.
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