Re: THEORY: more questions
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 5:47 |
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Tristan McLeay wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
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> > I'm not sure what's wrong with "give it me".
It's just wrong, wrong, wrong. (signed) N.Chomsky
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> (Of course, in American English, the jarring 'write me' is grammatically
> correct... Silly little Americans ... :)
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The benefactive in Engl. can do odd things.
"Call me a taxi"
"Put me in a piece of toast"
Ancient/apocryphal graffito and response:
"My mother made me a homosexual"
"If I give her the yarn, will she make me one, too?"