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#2 (permalink) Tue Jun 21, 2005 22:01 pm A-changin' |
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Hi Karlos For me it's an americanism. I can hear it in many songs and have come across it reading american books. I was a-thinkin' I was a-comin' same as i was thinking I was coming please Alan correct me if i'm wrong ;) _________________ obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit |
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Mosteque I'm here quite often ;-)

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#3 (permalink) Wed Jun 22, 2005 14:24 pm A-changin' |
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a couple of quotations from The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck:
"Where ya s'pose Connie was a-goin'?" "Goin' to take a crap, I guess"
"Guess we better git, then" Tom said. "Where you a-goin'?" "Why, up north, like I said."
"Well, he ain't no good," Pa insisted. "All the time a-sayin' what he's a-gonna do. Never........"
"..... We'd come up a-fightin', an' I jus' can't afford to be took in an' mugged......."
"Over there," said Ma. " Come on, ROsasharn. We're a-goin'."
a piece from Nick Cave's poem:
The light in our window is fading The candle gutters on the ledge Well now sorrow, it comes a-stealing And I'll cry, girl, but I'll come a-running Straight to you For I am captured Straight to you For I am captured Once again
ok i'm tired :D _________________ obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit |
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Mosteque I'm here quite often ;-)

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#4 (permalink) Wed Jun 22, 2005 21:35 pm A-changin' |
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Thank you for your reply, Mihal, you're ready to help as always. But my question is: does it make any difference to say "Where ya s'pose Connie was goin'?" instead of "Where ya s'pose Connie was a-goin'?"
By the way, it seems that "The Grapes of Wrath" is a good book for learning American colloquial English. |
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Carbonarius I'm new here and I like it ;-)
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#5 (permalink) Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:40 am A-changin' |
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as to your question, the difference is probably as distinct as this between i'm going to and i'm gonna ;) _________________ obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit |
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Mosteque I'm here quite often ;-)

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| I have vs I have got | To place and put |