OT: Spanish syntax

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:45 PM -0500 4/7/08, Scot LaFaive wrote:
>Is that "Spanish is spoken here" vs. "We speak Spanish"?
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>Maybe they wish to be more personal now.
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>Scot

Or it may be influence from English, code
switching and all that.  Wonder if the same
switch occurs in French (On parle français ==>
Nous parlons français).  After all, "Se habla
español" and "On parle français" do not literally
work when directly anglicized.

LH

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>On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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