Syntactic differences between dialects of English

ABrE

ABraver's English shall henceforth be called "ABrE"

Argument order

• "replace"
  • To show that item A has taken the place of item B, both of the following are acceptable in ABrE:
    • I replaced item A with item B
    • I replaced item B with item A
  • But:
    • Item A was replaced by item B
    • # Item B was replaced by item A

• This phenomenon was discussed by Aaron in his blog

Pronuncimamations

'Regular'

• abraver: [ɻejgjɯlɻ]
• jonw: [ɻɛgjɯlɻ]

[and for the record, jonw is stupid]

TaMclE

Tristan's dialect of AusE.

• %"but will usually stop other places if hailed"
• *"Did you eat yet?"