Re: Settling an Argument - Assembly *IS* a Language, Right?

On Tue, 30 May 2006 11:59:56 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In the book I'm currently editing, I've had to change hundreds of
examples of "could" to "was able to" -- because the several authors (not
writing in their native languages) _believed_ the incorrect claim that
"could" is the past tense of "can."

Curious: what are some examples?

Not an exact quote, but typical: "Isa could escape the killing by hiding
under the pile of bodies." (It's about the genocide of Christians in the
Ottoman Empire in 1915, which followed the Armenian genocide.)

Allright. What's wrong with it? I was expecting some bizzare
grammatical error, not a normal sentence!

Padraic.

la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu
ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu.
.

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