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Re: CHAT: the surprise that is at me...

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Thursday, March 2, 2000, 0:31
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. -- "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson 17 Wafsafíif watyánivaf plal 273 ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor