Not to mention the strange grammatical "usage" that you hear in
Britain:
"I am stood in front of the office."
"We were sat on the runway for 20 minutes"
(Something you say about chess pieces I suppose...)
or:
"The Bank of England have announced an increase in interest rates"
No wonder us foreigners have such a hard time, particularly as we have
to pay attention to the American variants.
Ole
Ole J. Jacobsen
Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal
Cisco Systems
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On Mon, 1 Aug 2011, Mark Atwood wrote:
English is funny that way, and it's one of the things that make it
such a difficult language to learn. A great deal of the meaning is
not in the literal meaning of a given chain of words, but is also
contained in the historical and literary allusions that given phrases
may have, which often have the direct opposite or at least very
different meaning than the literal words.
..m
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