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Guzhao67 Posted 14 years ago
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Hi: the following sentence was taken from "Lady Chatterley's Lover", my question is why the author use "you was" expression? is it a dialect or imprint mistake? thank you very much.

"Nay, I don't care," he said. "Let's have it, an' damn the rest. But if you was to feel sorry you'd ever done it--!"
  

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guzhao67 "Nay, I don't care," he said. "Let's have it, an' **** the rest. " Hi, In ordinary English, it should read if you were to...

  • guzhao67 "Nay, I don't care," he said.
  • "Let's have it, an' **** the rest.
  • " Hi, In ordinary English, it should read if you were to...
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  • Lawrence and thus its uniqueness.
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guzhao67"Nay, I don't care," he said. "Let's have it, an' **** the rest. But if you was to feel sorry you'd ever done it--!"
Hi,

In ordinary English, it should read if you were to... However, Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel

by D.H. Lawrence and thus its uniqueness. Novels most often do not use casual English.

Readers freque
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England was a very class conscious society (it still is, but to a lesser degree). The speech patterns of the educated upper class contrasted with the speech patterns of the less educated lower class is a literary device in the novel.

Dialects are very distinctive in the British Isles. You can tell where a person is from and their social class by the way they speak.

Notice that sh
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thank you very much. Emotion: smile

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