I think PDML is also a dialect, right? Very expensive though. Frits Wüthrich
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 22:38, Bob W wrote: > > >> What about the use of "would have" for "had"? As in, "If I would > > >> have written it properly, nobody could have been offended". > > >> Correct US use? It sounds diabolical to me. > > > > > > It's a colloquialism or vernacular in US English. > > > > According to my English (language, as hey came from both sides of > > the > > > pond) teachers, this is grammatically incorrect. The "If" part of a > > conditional does not take a form of will; the latter part does. > > > > Here is a Scottish one that stuns me: "I would have went". > > > > Kostas > > don't take your language teachers' pronouncements too seriously. Many > of the things that people decry as 'bad English' are in fact dialect, > and perfectly normal within the dialect. The English language (like > any natural language with a large number of native speakers) is made > up of many, many dialects which blend into each other (dialect > continuum). Standard American, Standard English, Scots English and so > on are just different dialects. > > Most native speakers use different varieties of the language in > different situations - we speak differently at home, with friends, and > at work. Many people go so far as to speak a different dialect in > different situations, and some dialects have achieved a certain > prominence and are used as a lingua franca, but they are no more > 'correct English' than any other dialect. > > -- > Bob -- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
