Re: TECH: Official languages of the list

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:35:01 -0700 (PDT), Philippe Caquant
<herodote92@...> wrote:
>
> I'm not a Dutchophone, but "Ik kan niet geen
> nederlands spreken" looks suspicious to me. Double
> negation.
*nods* I think I saw it in Afrikaans, once, but it's quite possible
that Dutch doesn't use it.

> I suppose there is a typo mistake and it should be:
> "this is where they're going to have to die", but even
> so, it sounds a bit heavy. Is this good American ?
I'd say yes.

In speech, of course, it'd become something like "this is where
they're gonna hafta die". Making the words shorter, which also makes
it easier to add more than one auxiliar.

"You're going to have to tell me more before I can help you", for
example, also sounds perfectly fine - "going to have to <INF>" is a
normal construction, I'd say.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>