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- From: wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: el nino
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.123653.7819@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 11:36:53 GMT
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- In article <gate.R1sDoB1w164w@buscard.fidonet.org>, dand@buscard.fidonet.org (Dan Davidson) writes:
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- > -=> Quoting Dennis Baron to All <=-
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- > DB> of countering noise in the communication system. One of the
- > DB> most striking redundancies is the preservation of the distinct
- > DB> singular present tense verb form for the 3rd person. All of
- >
- > Actually, "thou" was singular and "you" was plural.
- >
- Er, Dan, "thou" and "you" are *2nd* person pronouns. Dennis was referring to
- the fact that English has a seperate verb form for the pronouns "he", "she",
- "it".
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- Stephen Wilcox | Remember what happened to the dinosaurs!
- wilcox@maths.oxford.ac.uk | I did---and look what happened to me.
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