Re: Third report on Koni - some grammar

> She'll certainly be welcome whenever she decides to join.  :)
>
> >prior to her taking Linguistics and Spanish at uni.
>
> (Note: I am _not_ trying to start YAEPT!)  Is this an example of British
> English requiring less nouns to use an article?  My Linguistics 101 class
> claimed that this existed.  In AmE, I would say "at an uni(versity)" (I'd
> say the full word, too, or else use "college").
>
> Just curious.  :)

Just a point: this would be YAEGT, not YAEPT.

'an university' sounds hypercorrect to me, like 'an hat', mostly because
'university' starts with a consonant [j].  ([ju:niv@:sIti:], in my
ideolect).  But leaving that aside, 'at university' and 'at a university'
mean two different things to me.  To say 'she is at uni(versity)' means that
she is studying there, but saying 'she is at a university' would suggest
that she was there, but not neccesarily studying, maybe going for an
interview or something.

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