If the person who wrote those words was a native speaker of English, then he
or she isn't wrong. Whether an utterance is acceptable or not can only be
judged by whether or not it is acceptable to a native speaker (or, group of
native speakers). Native speakers do not make consistent mistakes, by
definition.
It is only by examining how native speakers use a language that we know
anything about a language at all. They can't be wrong (consistently). If two
native speakers disagree, then they speak different versions of the
language.
Cheers,
Robert Swier
Toronto
On 12/12/05, Simon Worby <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Brian Swale wrote:
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> > Not " A few photos of I ..."
> > Comment? (Note the :-)> )
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> You are right, of course. I'm just disappointed I missed it myself! But
> I do have to do some work now and then.
>
> Simon
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