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Re: USAGE: Speak-Say-Tell

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 18:30
Joe scripsit:

> In my idiolect, only 'speak' can take a language as its direct object.
Huh. I have no trouble talking English, talking plain English, or talking turkey. -- A: "Spiro conjectures Ex-Lax." John Cowan Q: "What does Pat Nixon frost her cakes with?" jcowan@reutershealth.com --"Jeopardy" for generative semanticists http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

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