From: | Daniel Andreasson <noldo@...> |
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Date: | Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 23:42 |
Ed Heil wrote:> The most common usages of a verb tend to be the least marked. For > indicative verbs, this is usually third singular and/or plural. > (English is weird in marking *only* this person/number combination.)Is this true? Because this should imply that you gossip more than you brag! That is, you talk more about what he or she is doing rather than what I am doing. Maybe the world isn't so egocentric after all... Daniel Andreasson