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Re: English diglossia (was Re: retroflex consonants)

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 29, 2003, 16:23
> Anyone else here use "says" as the generic verb for reporting what someone > said? In anything informal, I'll often have "says", as in:
Not exactly, when reporting things that happend, for emphasis, though, I'll put it in the present tense. Quite odd, really.