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Inkstersco · 04-11-2008, 03:03 PM

I think if everybody became magically incapable of using the verb "be", then instead of becoming clearer, the language would just gravitate toward sentences such as "I have Scottishness", which is no better than "I am Scottish".

~Iain

04-11-2008, 03:03 PM	#6 (permalink)
Inkstersco Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 11	I think if everybody became magically incapable of using the verb "be", then instead of becoming clearer, the language would just gravitate toward sentences such as "I have Scottishness", which is no better than "I am Scottish". ~Iain