Re: Foreign Language Acquisition

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2000 - 15:16:49 EST


At 11:24 AM -0800 1/24/00, Garland H. Shinn wrote:
>"VICE" is an English preposition meaning "instead of." Ain't you guys
>got no dictionaries?
>
>G. Shinn

That's SO disappointing! ;-) And I always thought it was the first half of
an ablative absolute!

Carl W. Conrad
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