LL-L "Grammar" 2005.05.09 (02) [E]

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From: Ben J. Bloomgren <godsquad at cox.net>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2005.05.08 (03) [E]

"if I were is being pedantic"...

Hah! I don't do it to be pedantic. I do it because it makes sense to me in
the face of other languages. I even go so far as to exhume a very arcane
mode of speaking. If it be so, then tell me. If she come, we will welcome
her. I do not, on the other hand, exhume shall and friends?
Ben

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From: Þjóðríkr Þjóðreksson <didimasure at hotmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2005.05.08 (03) [E]


>From: heather rendall <HeatherRendall at compuserve.com>
>Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2005.05.07 (11) [E]
>How very intriguing. Any more exampls of ik being used with any
>other
>prepositions?
>Any other lanaguges nearby using the same construction?
>How do people react to  "Het is van mij". if it is said?
>
>Heather

A song by the West Flemish singer Flip Kowlier has the sentence: Jil de
zoale kèkt nor ik or someting like that. The whole room (??) is watching me.
Or rather, "is watching I" ;)

Zandvliets here uses the posessive pronound: "Et is van mijn" [mE.n] (and
not: et is van maj) [mAj]

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From: Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2005.05.07 (11) [E]

Dear Mark Brooks

Subject: LL-L "Grammar"

> Mark wrote:  By the way, have you heard of the owl who told her owlet,
> "How
> many times do I have to tell you it is not 'To whom', but 'To who'!"
>
> Whereupon the owlet began to cry, "Boo whom, boo whom."  The exasperated
> mother owl replied, "We're not booing anyone, dear, now quit crying."

Eina!

Yrs,
Mark

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