Re: "I'm after ..." (Re: Maybe Spam? "Sorunsuz Yathamanýn Kefyi .. .")
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 27, 2004, 19:25 |
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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:59:45 -0400, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 07:39:20PM +0100, Keith Gaughan wrote:
> > I'm after getting it
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> I know this came up before, but I don't recall - is that an English
> dialectism or a translated non-Englishism?
I believe this is a typical feature of Hiberno-English; the influence
is from Irish grammar.
So you could say it's both: it derives from a non-English language but
is a standard feature of an English dialect/group of dialects.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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