Re: OT: Help reading Indic transliteration?
From: | Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |
Date: | Saturday, January 17, 2004, 15:19 |
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Quoting myself:
>
> > Do you by any chance of a microphone attached to your computer?
> > ^^
>
> Apparently my brain decided that all instances of [@v] ought to be spelt
> identically.
In my experience, 'have' as a full verb (with meanings of possession)
doesn't reduce to [@v]. But as to spelling [@v] as <of>, don't worry;
you're in good company. Thousands of English natives do it (esp. in things
like 'should of'='should've').
--
Tristan
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