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Re: "I'm after ..." (Re: Maybe Spam? "Sorunsuz Yathamanýn Kefyi .. .")

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Monday, September 27, 2004, 19:25
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 > > 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, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> Watch the Reply-To!

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