[WAYYY OT] Begs the question

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 22 21:15:38 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 20:47 +0000, mike cloaked wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm well aware of that. Spanish is a case in point:
> >
> > 1) Vamos a comer. -- Let's eat.
> > 2) ¿Vamos a comer? -- Are we going to eat?
> >
> > In fact I know from observation that some question forms can be hard for
> > non-native speakers to grasp when using English, such as the correct use
> > of the auxiliary verb 'do'. A common mistake for example is "Didn't he
> > went?" instead of "Didn't he go?"
> 
> I am confused here - I clearly mistakenly thought this was a Fedora users list!

You apparently didn't notice the two separate OT indicators.

poc



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