LL-L "Syntax" 2005.08.11 (07) [E]

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From: Andrys Onsman <Andrys.Onsman at CeLTS.monash.edu.au>
Subject: LL-L "Syntax" 2005.08.11 (05) [E]

Ben wrote:

> Criostóir, I wonder if this "do do" or "do be" thing sounds too much
> to us,
> at least here in America, like a kid's word like doodoo. The do be
> construction just sounds weird, and I never knew that anybody said
> that. It
> sounds too close to the cannabis reference.

This is getting far too close to Frank Sinatra here - never mind the
Dooby Brothers.

In Australia, particularly Tasmania people do say it to emphasis that in
fact they really do something: often if it goes against expectations.
"You don't do it, do you?"" I (certainly) do do it."

Is the use of will common in American English - as in commenting on a
child who crashed, one would say "He will ride his bike far too fast "?

Andrys

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Syntax

G'day, Andys!  Great to hear from you.

I do use "do do," too.  You do, too, don't you?  It doesn't seem strange to 
me.  But maybe I don't really count, am somehow exempt ...

I let others answer about "will".  I'm ethnically and linguistically too 
thinly spread and "ambiguous like a South Angrian," as the Old Saxons used 
to say.  (Not ... but they could have.)

Cheers!
Reinhard/Ron

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