Re: (In)transitive verbs

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 04:56:49PM +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> What about my annoying (annoying to me in any case) Tendency of
> having /i:/>/E/ in preterites. I sometimes have to consciously stop myself
> from saying "semt", "frekt" for "seemed", "freaked" (as in "he totally freaked
> out when he heard about the eleven-foot pink toy panda"). No doubt they slip
> under the radar way to often ... It very much seems to me my brain has
> generalized a rule from forms like "dreamt", "kept", and considers the regular
> formation irregular.
Sounds like you've created an extra, special-case rule for verbs which have
/i:/.  But I don't think that's indicative of what's normal for
native English speakers. :)

-Mark

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