#3 and #5 in particular give me fits!


These sentences actually remind me of a story in my family about an old woman in Nashville, Ark., in the 1920s.  My grandmother passed this to mom.  Maybe Trask thinks this might be accepted someday, too?

Old woman:  "If I knowed I coulda rid, I woulda went, but had I went, I couldn'tna et nuthin'.  But if I'd knowed you'da wanted me to came, I woulda went anyhow."

Erin Karl
Anaytical Grammar




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>From: Scott Catledge <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 8:22 PM
>Subject: 'Bad' English
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>Trask in his Why do Languages Change includes 
(p. 10) nine sentences that he considered would be or shortly 
become
>accepted as "normal English grammar."  One of the 
sentences (number seven) is strictly conversational and unlikely
>to be encountered in normal writing: I consider the 
other eight to have egregious errors.  What do you think?
> 
>(1)  I recommend you to take the job.
>(2)  He demanded that the agitators were 
arrested.
>(3)  This is just between you and I.
>(4)  Due to the rain, we had to cancel the 
picnic.
>(5)  This paper was written by Susie and myself. 
>(6)  Please come between eight a.m. to six 
p.m.
>(7)  If he'd've played, we would have won. 
>(8) He makes tedious 
jokes about mother-in-laws.
>(9)  Having said that, there is no feasible 
alternative.
> 
>Scott Catledge
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