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Old 02-03-2008, 04:45 AM   #1 (permalink)
Marcio_Osorio
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Default Different cultures dictate speech

Different cultures greatly influence the way we speak. In my cultural environment, people lavishly employ the verb to be. Even as we say yes we almost always employ an is as in "He races a lot! is."

We tend to regard every little simple fact with an is at the end of our own observations. I will have a tough job making my fellow countrymen resort to a language-prime version of E-Prime!
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