Re: Integrating snippets from other languages into your L1
| From: | Ph.D. <phil@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 19, 2006, 16:28 |
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Dana Nutter wrote:
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> I've lived in Tennessee for over 6 years now and have
> done pretty well in resisting the local speech habits. I
> do tend to say things like "it's not" rather than "it isn't"
> but have yet to say anything like "knowed", "blowed"
> or "yunz".
Which brings up a related usage. The negative of "let's"
is "let's not" in all the dialects of English that I'm familiar
with. But in _Atlas Shrugged_, the characters always
use "don't let's," which makes sense, but sounds awkward
to me.
"Let's not fight about it." vs. "Don't let's fight about it."
--Ph. D.
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