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Old 29-Nov-2006, 09:28
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which has slipped out of use in the UK, though it was used in the 19th century.
And that's the problem with the English taught here in Belgium too.

What we lack here are schools where one is able to learn "modern and realtime" English.
Not the sometimes archaic constructions taken out of books over a hundred years old.
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