CHAT: "close the light" (was: Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions)

On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 15:31:51 -0800 Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> writes:
> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >Now that makes me curious...does anybody else apply the syntactical
> rules
> >of their mother tongue to others they speak at an almost mother
> tongue
> >level? (I mean like, someone who is Canadian or American born but
> whose
> >first language is not English or French).
> Probably not as good an example of yours, but i'll often hear my
> father
> say things like "close the light",  which is something quite common
> that
> other Filipinos will do (my father is American born, and even though
> he
> spoke english growing up, and really only listening to my
> grandmother and
> father speak, he picked up their speech habits). My grandmother does
> the
> same also.
> ____________________________
> Yours truly,
> Cesar Javier Jaime Garcia
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I also say "close the light", and i'm 4th-generation American on most
sides.
I don't think that i say "open the light", but i'd understand it if
someone else says it.
"Shut the light" also sounds normal to me.


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