grammatically speaking...

Douglas Bigham TlhovwI at AOL.COM
Fri Jan 10 12:06:14 UTC 2003


Riddle me this, Batman....

Just out of curiosity, does anyone get a *better* reading with a pronoun
instead of a noun phrase?  For example: "donate me this lamp" sounds a lot
worse than (while holding said lamp, saying) "donate me this".  Anyone share
this opinion?

Just wondering....

-dsb
Douglas S. Bigham
University of Texas - Austin



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