Re: USAGE : English past tense and participle in -et
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 28, 2003, 17:39 |
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--- 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!
Padraic.
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la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu.
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