A weird linguistic monet...

Dec. 5th, 2002 11:45 am
[personal profile] lithera
So take, "This is strange, isn't it?"

Break down "Isn't it?" - "is not it?" That's awkward. I would say, "is it not?"

I just noticed that. It's like wh movement with out the wh word. How peculiar.

Ignore me. I'm strange.
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