My friend and I have had a disagreement about this. Her daughter found my daughter's glasses and asked me what I wanted her to do with them. I said 'Put them on her,' to which my friend responded to her daughter 'What Mineallmine meant, of course, was put THOSE glasses on her.' Sounds all wrong to me. I understand that she wants to stop her dd saying things like 'I love them glasses' but to my ear, my friend over uses the word 'those.' To me, the word 'those' is to indicate which ones you mean eg 'Which glasses will I put on Mini-mine? Those' in a pointing sort of way.
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mineallmine · 16/08/2014 15:05
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