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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--!"
"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.
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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
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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