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Re: R: Re: Degreesofvolitioninactivelanguages(wasRe:Chevraqis: asketch)

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Monday, August 14, 2000, 17:05
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

>Nik Taylor wrote: > >> J Matthew Pearson wrote: >> > Perhaps what makes the sentence jarring to modern ears is that, because we >> > expect do-support, there's a temptation to interpret "what" as questioning >> > the subject of the sentence >> >> Partly, but, for me at least, it still sounds bizarre even if you add >> do-support, "What did you hear him say else". That else just feels like >> it doesn't belong when it's there. > >Yeah. I think "else" used thus 's acceptable in some current very >nonstandard British dialects. But as far as Standard English goes, >it's not. (Of course, in Shakespeare's time, there was no Standard >English.)
I assume you mean "thus" as "in that location". If so, then I agree. I'd use else, just not in that location. Padraic.
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