Re: OT: passport languages

--- David Barrow <davidab@...>
wrote:

> >>adjectives need their nouns or pronouns in
> >>*Standard English when used attributively
>
> >>* Of course dialects may vary and even
> >>Standard speakers may not always stick to the
> >>rules :-)
> >Is the misplacement of that asterisk
> >intentional?
> What do you mean? Where should it go?
Depends on what you mean by the star. A star in
front indicates "unattested form" - so we'd read
"*Standard English" as something that doesn't
really exist. Ironic, considering how many
varieties of this "standard" we come up with
during the English Pronunciation threads! A star
after, "Standard English*", indicates "see note
below". Since you actually wrote a note below, I
suspect you meant the star after variety.

Padraic.


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of Mursilbâm that slew the monster!
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