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

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> Sender:       Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
> Poster:       Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
> Subject:      Re: CHAT: Re: the surprise that is at me...
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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.
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> Interesting.  Is English her second language?  That sounds like
> mother-tongue interference to me.
Nope, she's spoken English all her life, and no other language that I'm
aware of.

Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo suHnus
raccoon@elknet.net