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Different rules for different dialects Larry Send a noteboard - 21/05/2010 12:03:31 AM
it's a message from the Queen!


The rest of it is meh, considering divergent grammatical conventions for the most part.


One reason I like Romance languages is that their grammatical structures reminds me of certain Southern grammatical rules, ones that make much more sense than British or Yank ones.


There's an insinuation in that sketch that Received speech is the only "proper" English. It's not; it's just one of several dialects. I was just noting that I didn't accept much of what was noted because the semantics behind the phrases have shifted over 400 years and an ocean apart. Might as well ask why the hell do people still say "God save the Queen." Save her from what? A whole host of people who don't think of that as being a verb in the subjunctive mood?

But then again, whenever someone is "knocked up," do you go for the pregnancy test or ask if they are tired?
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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Subjunctive, reflective pronouns, things like that Larry - 20/05/2010 11:26:09 PM 526 Views
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Different rules for different dialects Larry - 21/05/2010 12:03:31 AM 657 Views
.... dialects? Camilla - 21/05/2010 12:06:03 AM 618 Views
Yes, dialects Larry - 21/05/2010 12:20:09 AM 618 Views
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