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From: <span class="gd"><span><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">jmtait</span></span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:jmtait@wirhoose.co.uk">jmtait@wirhoose.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Language varieties" 2010.02.10 (01)
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sandy</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> wrote:</span></p>
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Perhaps parents and others are less likely to correct things if the</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
grammar is clear due to being used in other parts of the conjugation,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
but an even stronger consideration is that children (at least children</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
who aren't lonely) don't pick up the bulk of their language from their</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
parents, they pick it up from other children. Once something is rife</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
amongst children the parents are going to have a hard time correcting</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
it.</span></span></p>
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So I wonder where the changes came from originally, then? (If it makes sense to
speak about changes being 'original'...?!)<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">[John Magnus Tait]</span><br style="">
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