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

Tim May wrote at 2003-12-28 21:36:23 (+0000)
 >
 > 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.

Before you reply to this, Padraic (assuming you were planning to);
let's not waste any more time on this.  My statement was intended to
refer solely and explicitly to my own speech, so it irritated me to
have it contradicted*.  If you genuinely feel it was ambiguous in this
regard, then I apologise for this.  Either way, I can't imagine the
issue is of any interest to anyone else here, so let's not tie up the
list trying to prove a point which can be of little interest to anyone
else here (unless you'd care to rephrase it as a general point of
grammar?).


* If you had, in fact, felt that you had reason to believe that my
   analysis of my own speech was in some respect inaccurate, then it
   seems the polite way to express this would be to express this would
   have been in the form of a question or suggestion, rather than a
   blunt denial.