Re: Tawake?

Ben Bullock wrote:

I stand by all of the corrections I made.

A search on Google confirms that native speakers are using constructions
like the ones you strive to "correct", especially in casual speech
(newsgroup postings are often, essentially, casual speech written down). If
you want to correct non-native utterances on the basis of how you feel
native speakers *should* speak - rather than limiting your corrections to
the way they incontrovertibly *do* speak - well, go ahead, but I would hate
to have you as my teacher!


John
http://rarebooksinjapan.com

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