Re: Losing languages ...

--- Tommie L Powell <tommiepowell@...>
wrote:
> Estel Telcontar wrote:
> >  --- Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
> > > --- Estel Telcontar wrote:
> > >
> > > > "the both of them" instead of "both of
> them"
> > > > (German: die Beide von ihnen)
> > >
> > > As far as I'm aware, that's good English.
> >
> > Really?! As in "I talked to the both of them,
> and they said..." ?
>
> In my native dialect, "I talked to the both of
> them" means I talked to
> them together, while "I talked to both of them"
> means I talked to them separately.
For me, I guess they're the same.

Padraic.


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