Re: interrogative tail or head ?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 17, 2001, 3:10 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> If it was,
> French would never have got such long expressions to begin questions with,
Isn't "est-ce que" generally pronounced as simply /Esk(@)/? That
doesn't seem so long to me, in the modern language, at any rate. I
would presume that as it became more common it tended to be contracted.
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