[Gllug] LinuxDoc / DocBook Documentation Writting
Tom Schutzer-Weissmann
trmsw at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Sep 14 11:32:56 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 09:40 +0100, John G Walker wrote:
> > e.g. try feeding in the grossly incorrect sentence
> >
> > She's going to London and talk on global warming
>
> This is perfectly correct colloquial English, where to "go and do
> something" means to "go to do something". I bet you use the
> construction all the time in your everyday conversation.
Yes, when I'm telling someone to go and do something, not when I'm
describing their future plans.
Surely "She's going and catching the plane" doesn't mean "she's going to
catch the plane"; the first sentence means she's doing it now and the
second means she'll be doing it in the future.
In Nix's example the speaker's left out "to go" - "She's going to go to
London and talk on global warming."
I wonder if grammar checkers are more use for languages with gender?
Regards,
Tom SW
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