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We've talked about this -ating inflection before, but here's another
example from a friend in Kentucky:<br><br>
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From: "Elizabeth Winkler"
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To: flanigan@ohio.edu<br>
Subject: conversating<br>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:47:09 -0500<br>
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I got it again this morning in the discussion board section of my on-line
class in SLA. Here's the question I asked and the response:<br><br>
<font size=2>"Should classroom grades reflect both the ability to
carry on a reasonable conversation as well as test accuracy through
written and oral tests? What should the balance be?"<br><br>
Answer: "These are questions I am thinking about now.
Conversational skills as well as written skills are not equally
important. Some students may want to learn specifically for
conversating, others specifically for reading, and still others for
both. Would it be important to find out what each student is
specifically interested in?"<br><br>
The speaker is a working class woman, African American enrolled in a 400
level SLA class.<br>
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My friend later added that she's only heard it so far from African
Americans. As a sidenote, I also get pseudo-formal connectors like
the "as well as" substituted for "and" above.
"Although" in place of "However" at the beginning of
a presumably simple independent clause is also increasingly common, even
with a comma: "Although, it wasn't true."<br><br>
Beverly Flanigan<br>
Ohio University</body>
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