Re: "Difficult" clauses
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 13, 2007, 23:09 |
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In a message dated 5/13/2007 4:50:18 PM Central Daylight Time, hmiller@IO.COM
writes:
> > Adding an *implicit* "that" is pointless, if not absurd. If it's
> implied,
> > who's to say that it's been added at all?
>
> Is it really any worse than "talking about I can't remember what"? If
> your language can't handle "talking about I can't remember what"
> directly, you need a different way to express it. "Talking about
> something I can't remember" seems like a reasonable alternative.
>
I think you missed my point. If a word is implied, then it's not there, even
if it could be there. Adding a word that will not be there isn't really
adding anything.
stevo </HTML>