Your mam told my aunt told me

[Detmar Meurers]

Hi,

> I wonder how you can be sure that none such exist in USA. Of course Tibor
> is the ultimate judge: does he mix with non-standard speakers?

Having Tibor as the ultimate judge for US English is a neat idea -
gives me hope that theories of the German verbal complex will soon
be applicable to English ;-)

Lieben Gruß,
Detmar


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