[Mihalic] RE: We

[John Burton]

Miriam

> >(Your web site says "Email: Use my first name and last name
> separated
> >by a dot. Then use @ed.ac.uk". Can you correct this please.)
>
> Actually, this is correct. The university prefers us to use
> transparent aliases, though some of the listservs I am signed up on
> automatically see "through" and show my local address on the
> linguistics server.

1. What I was referring to is the fact that your email is not
miriam.meyerhoff at ed.ac.uk but mhoff at ed.ac.uk

2. Sankoff & Brown (Gillian Sankoff; Penelope Brown Language, Vol. 52, No.
3. (Sep., 1976), pp. 631-666) reproduce one 'we' example:

'Em igo soim ples long, we pik isave slip longen'

(This orthography is deprecated by Dutton. Better: 'Em i go soim ples long
we pik i save slip long en'.)

'He went and showed the place where the pig sleeps.' The example is really
of 'long we' = where, whereas in the examples I gave previously, 'we' meant
'in the case of'.

HTH

John Burton

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