[lit-ideas] Re: Maybe Maybe

Fowler's Modern English Usage [2nd edn.] rightly points out that "maybe" "= 
perhaps"

--- On Tue, 11/5/10, jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> It maybe that she is a whore.
> 
> Sounds more grammatical than
> 
> "maybe, she may be a whore" -- which sounds redundant.

'It perhaps that she is a whore' is hardly more grammatical than 'perhaps, she 
may be a whore' - if it is grammatical at all. Nor is redundancy by way of 
repetition ungrammatical or even always at all times to be avoided or eschewed. 

Dnl
Nimbyist
London




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