by Roedy Green <see_website@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Apr 3, 2008 at 10:44 AM
On 2 Apr 2008 22:19:35 GMT, ram@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Stefan Ram) wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>it does not seem too far
> fetched to call the expression for it an »operation expression«.
There is little logical about English. I spent a lot of time with
foreign students when I was at university. They would always be saying
strange things. I would query. They would explain the logic. I would
then have to ponder what the unwritten rules of English were that
forbade such a construction, and explain them to the student. English
is far more complicated and irregular than nearly every native speaker
recognises.
I eventually began to wonder if it was just constructed of pat phrases
with very little true structure.
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