Re: Feminization of plurals?
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andreasj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 20:29 |
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> On 2009-02-11 Andreas Johansson wrote:
>>
>> (In speech, you'll find people who have -a everywhere, ones who have -e
>> everywhere, ones that make the
>> distinction much as in the written standard (I do), and
>> ones who draw some other distinction.)
>>
>
> Not in Western and Southern Sweden, where the
> distinction is still rigorously maintained.
> We cringe when people from "up country"
> say things like _den stora mannen_!
Er? Upholding the distinction was one of the possibilities I listed.
--
Andreas Johansson
Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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