"whenever" for "when"

[William Mann]

Steve Long gave two readings for "He told me about the party whenever he
called".

They are obviously different, and both of them are sound readings in my own
dialect.   I am about (25 + tax) years old.   With lots of tax.

Is there another reading (or several) for those with lower taxes?

Bill Mann


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Long" <Salinas17 at AOL.COM>
To: <FUNKNET at listserv.rice.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: "whenever" for "when"


> In a message dated 1/27/03 2:13:01 PM, mattjuge at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU
writes:
> << "He told me about the party whenever he called". >>
>
> I'm not familiar with this usage except as (1) indicating uncertainty:
> "He told me about the party/whenever [it was that] he called".
>
> or (2) equivalent to "on every occasion":
> "Whenever he called, he [always] told me about the party."
>
> "When he called, he told me about the party" is both unqualified by
> uncertainty of time and it is singular.
>
> Unless there is a usage I don't know about, "when" does not seem to equal
> "whenever" in the example given.
>
> SL