Re: USAGE: Weird dialectal stuff
From: | <raccoon@...> |
Date: | Monday, January 10, 2000, 5:39 |
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> And Rosta scripsit:
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> > Cf. I am come, I am gone, I am arrived, The leaves are fallen,
> He is drunk.
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> All but the first of these sound archaic to me,
Hmm, all but "I am gone" and "He is drunk" sound archaic to me.
Eric Christopherson
raccoon@elknet.net