Re: Rating Languages
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 28, 2001, 20:58 |
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Muke Tever wrote:
> I'm familiar with "staying" for temporary housing situations.
I guess the issue revolves around how long you have to be somewhere
before it's "live". :-) These days, how many people live in the same
house from birth to death? So, really, any housing situation is
temporary. To me, if I bring my computer and my books, etc. etc., it's
"live".
> Or narrative tense.
Well, in some languages, yes, but in ENglish, I don't think there's any
justification for splitting those two uses of the present tense into two
tenses.
> Never heard of 'fittin' before.
I've heard it a few times, it's rather rural. Kinda like "Fitty cent"
:-) (Fifty cents)
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