Peter Dechi
In Anne's Diary I found a English grammar point I never know before,who can help me please? Anne said :'so far you truly have been areat source of comfort to me...I am so alad that...'I noticed that she replace 'g' in 'great'and 'glad' with 'a' sometimes,why?what's the point when she did it?what's the meaning of doing it?when can we do it?And is there any similar usage like that?an English grammar point,not a English grammar point....
2011년 3월 20일 오후 4:39
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It's a spelling mistake. That's all.
2011년 3월 20일
Just a printing error
2011년 3월 20일
You could say it is an attempt to write in a vernacular accent; however, Ann Frank is not a writer I'm familiar with.
2011년 3월 20일
It's possible that this edition of the book was prepared by scanning an old edition and doing OCR (optical character recognition) on a computer. If the old edition was printed with a font where "g" and "a" are quite similar, and the program wasn't properly trained, the computer might confuse those two letters. And apparently they didn't do proper proofreading. (By the way, Anne Frank wrote originally in Dutch, so it's quite unlikely she did something like this with English words on purpose.)
2011년 3월 20일
no
2011년 3월 20일
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