Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: It's vs. it is

From:<bjm10@...>
Date:Monday, April 16, 2001, 13:54
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Shreyas Sampat wrote:

> Someone brought up the fact that it's okay to say "It's a frog", but not = > okay to say things of the nature of *"I don't know where it's". I =
That's because "I don't know where 'tis." is the construction in this case (albeit a somewhat archaic one). This makes more sense if you realize that English uses the one word as two different words. One is a verb, the other is a copula. Irish distinguishes the two.

Reply

The Gray Wizard <dbell@...>