🚀 go-pugleaf

Roger Greenwald (hlirg@alf.uib.no) writes:
)Jim Scobbie (scobbie@Csli.Stanford.EDU) writes:
))Rich Wingerter (richwing@leland.Stanford.EDU) writes:
))I feel happier with this, because "are" changes the scope for me, I think.
))As far as I am able to introspect, "there are anger and frustration"
))implies each person is both angry and frustrated.
)
)It seems to me the statement just says these feelings are about,
)and that you are reasoning backward from what your ear likes to some
)distinction that isn't there.
)...

I have to say that it delightens me to see that native speakers
having problems with this. Being a native speaker of a language
who has scrapped verb inflexion with regards to grammatical person,
this is a constantly reoccurring to me when I'm writing in English
or any other foreign language I know.
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Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
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