Re: EXERCISE: Meanings of to be
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 3, 2002, 5:50 |
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On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 07:30 , Jake X wrote:
[snip]
> 4. English use, for creating verb forms: He is walking.
{tiny peeve}
Why _English_ use? Why not call it Welsh use,
or Irish use, or Hindi or Urdu use? 'Tis by no means
confined to English - or indeed just to the above
languages.
I just get a bit sensitive about Anglocentricity :)
{end of peeve}
There's also the difference Spanish & Portuguese
make between there two verbs "to be": _ser_ and
_estar_
Ray.