Sunday, February 04, 2007
"They felt like that this was..."
"They felt like that this was their own community."
I've noticed that the use of the two conjunctions in a row "like that" seems to be an element of some dialects of spoken English. It seems to be a 'chunking' issue where the speaker says "they/I/we + feel/felt like" as a chunk where feel+like is a unit.
Either one of the conjunctions could have been omitted:
They felt like this was their own community.
They felt that this was this own community.
I suspect this doublling of conjunctions is rare in written texts but is a common part of the syntax of spoken English.
I've noticed that the use of the two conjunctions in a row "like that" seems to be an element of some dialects of spoken English. It seems to be a 'chunking' issue where the speaker says "they/I/we + feel/felt like" as a chunk where feel+like is a unit.
Either one of the conjunctions could have been omitted:
They felt like this was their own community.
They felt that this was this own community.
I suspect this doublling of conjunctions is rare in written texts but is a common part of the syntax of spoken English.
# posted by blue-foot Sue @ 10:20 AM 
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