John Cowan wrote:
> And Rosta scripsit:
> > As for remembering you, used you to meet up with
> > Colin Fine in Bradford?
> BTW, this goes on the list of Brit/Am grammatical
> differences,
It does? I read it and thought it was just a
conlanger's sense of humour. I know I say it sometimes
like that (very, very occasionally with other verbs
e.g. 'Think you it would work?', but not often and it
sounds abnormal... I guess I must've picked up the
Briticism somewhere).
> along with "Susan suggested that she play/should
> play Ophelia"
Whose is the 'play', whose the 'should play'?
> and "The Queen are raising their rates".
What does this one mean? How does it translate into
the other's English? Is Queen there the monarch or
something different? Are rates there taxes or
something else?
> AmE requires "Did you /just@/?"
Is it /just@/ even before words starting with a vowel?
I understand you people say 'hafta always'. (They
become /justu/ and /h{ftu/ in Australia.)
Tristan
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