Re: USAGE : English past tense and participle in -et

Costentin Cornomorus wrote at 2003-12-28 09:39:14 (-0800)
 > --- Tim May <butsuri@...>
 > wrote:
 >
 > >  > > (This doesn't carry any
 > >  > > connotation of auctions or divisions of
 > > > >  land.)
 > >  >
 > >  > Actually, it does, as the auctioneers lot is simply a quantity
 > >  > of stuff for sale. A lot is some undefined quantity of land.
 > >
 > > Padraic, how about you don't tell me what words
 > > mean in my dialect,
 > > and I don't tell you what they mean in yours?
 >
 > Howabout you don't just make a blanket statement
 > in the first place! I know it's a very difficult
 > thing for us to make a lengthy disclaimer every
 > time we say things like this. I'm guilty of it,
 > John's guilty of it - we all are. Just don't take
 > it personal; and get used to the fact that if you
 > say something is so, someone else is liable to
 > come right along and say taint so!
 >

It wasn't a blanket statement.  "This" refers to a certain usage in
the preceding example, which is in the first person, and is in the
context of a discussion of a feature of my own speech.

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