Re: Anglophonian (was: Creole Romance?)

From: tgpedersen
Message: 24037
Date: 2003-06-30

> Would you treat the use of 'on account of' as a conjunction as
> a 'creole effect', as in the American English sentence 'I won't do
> it on account of I'm too tired to.'? Such constructions seem
> American to me (an Englishman), but I doubt that they're accepted
as
> grammatical.

If I should use the term 'creole effect', I think it would be in the
context of grownups learning English.

Torsten