Re: [Corpora-List] 'Standard European English' ?

From: Nicholas Sanders (nick@semiotek.org)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2006 - 13:50:45 MET

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    I couldn't have put it better myself!!

    Nick

    On 8 Mar 2006, at 12:45, Martin Wynne wrote:

    > Nick's example has a simple past tense of an active verb in the
    > main clause. This is the usage which occurs in non-native English,
    > and strikes native speakers as, depending on point of view, either:
    > - charming
    > - just plain wrong
    > - an interesting interference error
    > - evidence of a new dialect of English 

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