Re: OT: Latin subject-verb agreement

IIRC, the aphonotacticity of "amn't" is the origin of "ain't", which
was originally restricted to 1pp.  But that ship done sailed...


On 12/13/07, Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...> wrote:
> In the last episode, (On Thursday 13 December 2007 13:23:42), Mark J. Reed
> wrote:
> > "Ungrammatical" according to English textbooks, sure,
>
> No, ungrammatical according to me. Not that I'm setting myself up as any
> authority, but though I've since reread the post I was replying to,
> initially
> I missed the "my" in "my English has fixed this".
>
> > but we're
> > talking about real live English as she be spoke.  "I, who are" sounds
> > weird to me, but I can see where it would work, along the same lines
> > as "Aren't I?'
> >
>
> I suspect that "aren't" is only "aren't" here because phonotactically, you
> can't say "amn't?" "I, who are" doesn't have that problem.
>
> Jeff.
>

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