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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>From: </font><span><span name="Paul Finlow-Bates"></span></span><span><span name="Sandy Fleming"></span></span><span class="gI"><span name="Michael McCartin" class="gD"></span></span><span class="gI"><span name="Mark and Ruth Dreyer" class="gD">Mark and Ruth Dreyer</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:mrdreyer@telkomsa.net">mrdreyer@telkomsa.net</a></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Subject: </font><span class="gI">LL-L "Grammar" 2012.11.02 (04) [EN]</span></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></p><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hail All from a lurker... Mark Dreyer.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Grammar"</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I had supposed that what is being identified here as
'double modals' was a fairly ordinary construction: If uncommon, an occasionally
necessary usage.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Have I missed something?</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Down this end we have a pop song with these
lines;</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> 'Ek sou kon doen met 'n
miljoen</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Ek sou my met net ses nulle kon
versoen.'</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In English;</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> 'I should could do with a
million</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> I should could recincile myself with
six zeroes...'</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Well, indeed.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">As Sandy
says,<br><br></span><div class="adL"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">To me they give a
definite power of expression and brevity, so I'm not giving them up!</span> </div></blockquote><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><span>Mark Dreyer</span></font></span></span></div>
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