Re: English allative (was:Re: -s adverbs, bodoer Homo Sapiens (was: watered down fiery spirits)
| From: | Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 27, 2003, 2:02 |
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On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Stone Gordonssen wrote:
> > > I was talking about the style of using an accent mark on the stressed
> > > vowel of an emphasized word.
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> >Oh. I've never seen that style other than on this list and assumed it was
> >a personal idiosyncracy of those individuals who use it here. Is it
> >a more widespread phenomenon?
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> You are correct. It is a personal idiosyncracy of some here.
In English. However, it is my understanding that it is perfectly normal
behavior in Dutch. And until the popularisation of computers, they would
put an acute on the j in ij when stressing it too, that's a véry nice
touch :)
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Tristan.