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Re: THEORY: more questions

From:Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 20:16
Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
> --- Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...> wrote:
>>Tristan McLeay wrote:
>>>(Of course, in American English, the jarring >>'write me' is grammatically
>>Indeed, it's very jarring. It usually causes >>some little boggling of the mind when I read >>it.
> Is it not a part of your dialect then?
[In answer to Mark too] No, it's not used in Ireland or Britain AFAIK - certainly I can only recall ever hearing it from 'Mericans. But it's quite possible that it's present in, say, Lincolnshire dialect, and that's how it got to America (like _Fall_ for _Autumn_, not to mention _Boston_). > It's > totally transparent to me. As with any verb of > that sort (sing, tell, read, etr.) Ah, but there's the rub: it's not a verb of that sort to me. The verb 'write' takes a direct object alright, but one which refers to what's written. Obviously the American verb can do this too, but the rightpondian version definitely requires a 'to' to introduce the recipient. OTOH, _sing_, _tell_, _read_ function the same way for me as for you. My, I've moved up in the world: I used to contribute to the YAEPTs. Now I'm working on YAEDTs! Excellent.... ObConlang: ... nah... wait till I'm ready :) -- I just need enough Stephen Mulraney to tide me over ataltane@oceanfree.net until I need more http://livejournal.com/~ataltane -- Bill Hoest http://ataltane.net

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Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
John Cowan <cowan@...>
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>