Re: Word usage in English dialects // was Slang, curses and vulgarities
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 6, 2005, 20:08 |
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> > No, Tristan and Andreas are rather exaggerating the death of "shall".
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> Excuse me? When have I exaggerated the death of 'shall'?
Well, what you did say was that you don't use "shall", and that you
thought it was only used in the KJV Bible, which uses an archaic
version of modern English. Doing a quick search with an online
Bible using the New International Version (ca. 1970-80s?), I found
409 instances of "shall", in most books of the Bible, New and Old
Testament, and including instances not used in questions or in the
first person. E.g. Revelation 1:7 reads: "So shall it be! Amen".
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