Re: Is "is" a verb?

From: DE781 (de781_at_aol.com)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: 14 Jun 2004 15:53:04 -0700

ranjit_mathews@yahoo.com (M. Ranjit Mathews) wrote in message news:<1d4c67e3.0406141023.4a6eb086@posting.google.com>...
> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote ...
> > DE781 wrote:
> > > But you CAN say "this person is being well" and that's correct.
> >
> > Since you don't know what Tamil is, you're presumably not Indian; where
> > else can you say "This person is being well"?
>
> Excellent observation! That is a fairly literal translation of an
> equivalent Indian sentence. That introduces the piquant question of
> what DE781's native language might be, that he finds this correct.

Here's a lesson to learn: it's STUPID of a foreigner to criticize a
native speaker of the language that they're admittedly just a novice
at, especially when you're WRONGLY correcting someone's "error". How
arrogant! It must be part of Indian culture, where you all thing you
live in Jung Gwo, the centre of the universe!

I am indeed a native speaker of English. I challenge ANYONE to tell
me that "I'm being well" is not a correct English sentence!
Bullshitters need not respond.

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