Re: THEORY: more questions
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 17:41 |
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 05:13:22PM +0000, Stephen Mulraney wrote:
> >(Of course, in American English, the jarring 'write me' is grammatically
> >correct... Silly little Americans ... :)
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> Indeed, it's very jarring. It usually causes some little boggling of the
> mind when I read it.
Huh. "Write me" feels perfectly natural to me; I had no idea that was
considered odd in other 'lects. What about other
"indirect as only object" constructions? Like "Tell me now!"
etc. Are they all equally boggling?
-Mark