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Old 06-Mar-2008, 08:38
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Default Dialect or simply atrocious grammar?

I wonder what you think about this question which has arisen in this post:

http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/as...bjunctive.html

A native American speaker is asking about the correctness of

Quote:
If you would have let me, I would have came to New York
What surprised me most is the fact that this speaker considered the sentence: .... I would have come to New York "bad English".

The answers were varying from atrocious grammar to this is a dialect and as such is ok.

I wonder what your opinions are on this matter.
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