on Mon, 20 Oct 2003 01:45:21AM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld insinuated: > Hi, > > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > Okay, okay, I can think of an irregular German bit. As a small child, I > > once said "Du hast mich wehgetutet." (Instead of wehgetan.) I > > conjugated the verb improperly, and don't think I've ever been allowed > > to forget it, even after 20 years! > > Du hast *mir* wehgetan. > > Don't worry, a lot of Germans make the same mistake.
if a lot of germans -- for whom german is, naturally, the native language -- make the same mistake, then wouldn't that suggest that the two are becoming interchangeable? or is that getting to be like the use of the accusative/dative in english -- to whoM, which many people omit, but which prescriptivists still advocate? </nori> -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net ^`~'^ get my (*new*) key here: http://www.maenad.net/geek/gpg/7ede5499.asc (please *remove* old key 11e031f1!)
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