Re: CHAT: the surprise that is at me...
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 2, 2000, 0:31 |
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Eric Christopherson wrote:
> I've just delurked a bit, so I'm not sure what this thread's about, but my
> grandma has a usage that really irritates me: "that's" as in "The man that's
> mother I went to school with," instead of "...whose mother I went to school
> with." She seems to use it for both animate and inanimate nouns. I don't
> remember ever hearing anyone else use that.
Interesting. Is English her second language? That sounds like
mother-tongue interference to me.
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