>On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 23:23:53 +0100 Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
>writes:
>>
>>transl.: "The man, he cut some wood in the forest"
>
>>-Kristian- 8-)
>>
>
>I speak like that in English normally, and people around me do
>too.....is it known whether this kind of construction, like "my
>mother, she told me to go to the store" is regional (NYC?) or ethnic
>(Jewish?), because as far as i know, it's grammatically incorrect,
>even though i hear it around here all the time, and my brother said
>that he doesn't think people in other areas use this construction.
>
>The type of construction, specifically, is where a pronoun
>representing the subject of the sentence is placed into a sentence
>where the subject is already specified, e.g.:
>
>My brother, he told me people in other places don't talk like this.
>His friend Ari, she lives in Jersey.
>Those stupid tourists, they clog up the subways.
>The computer, it broke.
>
>(as opposed to "My brother told me...", "His friend Ari lives in
>Jersey", etc.)
>
>For some reason it looks so much weirder in writing than it sounds
>spoken...
>
>
>-Stephen (Steg)
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