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Re: THEORY: Subject: THEORY: Word Order In Phrases

From:Roberto Suarez Soto <ask4it@...>
Date:Monday, September 30, 2002, 21:00
On Sep/30/2002, John Cowan wrote:


> "From a Spanish-speaking viewpoint, French is essentially a weird
> dialect of English."

        In fact, a more proper saying would be:

        "From a Spanish-speaking viewpoint, French is essentially
spanish spoken with your lips in 'u' form".

        It's not that essentialist, but it's quite the feeling around
here :-)

--
        Roberto Suarez Soto