I left school at 16 Patrick.
2009/12/9 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> Now that's what I call really academic!!!!
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> Subject: Re: a new word?
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> If I parse right it's a genitive relative pronoun. I think you can get them
> in German. (Old English had no relative pronouns but used particles like
> 'že' or 'žaet' , although without declension.)
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> 2009/12/8 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
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> > I read in a bookshop newsletter about
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> > 'a moving novel thats effect builds slowly and then continues' etc
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> > Is this 'thats' a new word?
> >
> > The writer I guess wanted to avoid the word 'whose' and couldn't come up
> > with the
> > old 'effect of which'.
> >
> > (the words are attributed to Sophie Cunningham, editor of Meanin
> Quarterly,
> > and a
> > published novelist)
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David Bircumshaw
"A window./Big enough to hold screams/
You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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