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rivere123
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03 December 2011 at 4:09am | IP Logged

hrhenry wrote:

Cainntear wrote:

Ah, the good old double modals -- that's most probably a borrowing from Scots.

I wouldn't be surprised at all, now that you mention it. A lot of Scottish landed in that part of the country.

Up here in the north central states of the US there's a lot of Norwegian ancestry. As a kid everybody joked that to form a question all you had to do was surround a basic statement with "So ... then?" - "So, you're going to the store, then?", which is a Norwegian construct.

I think all over the US the speech patterns have been influenced by the immigration of different peoples.

R.
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While still on topic, this happens down here. In Louisiana, someone might say "Me, I like noun, me!" This is pretty similar to using Moi in French to stress a sentence.

Meanwhile, some minor nuances are also at play; some people say "I be," "They be," "You be," and so on, as if conjugations never existed. Maybe this is from a mistranslation with Frech etre or something.

When people say "I'm at the store," they might say "I'm to the store." It's worth noting that French à can be translated as at and to. This is odd, coming from people who don't even know French!

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