Re: USAGE: Weird dialectal stuff

At 11:31 pm -0500 9/1/00, John Cowan wrote:
>>And Rosta scripsit:
>>
>>> Cf. I am come, I am gone, I am arrived, The leaves are fallen, He is
>drunk.
>>
>>All but the first of these sound archaic to me,
>Surely "He is drunk" isn't archaic  :)
>
>In fact all except the last sound distinctly archaic or poetic to me.
All but "I am gone", and "He is drunk" sound archaic to me or poetic, one
of the two :).

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