English around the world/around Australia

[triner2001]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:

>>When I was there, my South African friends used all sorts of 
Germanic constructions which I'd never heard in English before, 
like "I'm going to the library.  Are you coming with?" (="kommst du 
mit" structure, presumably... ending with a preposition, no object 
required).<<  

They do this in Chicago, too, presumably for the same reasons.  Being 
a down-stater from Central Illinois, this *really* bugged me when I 
first heard it from Chicago-raised friends in college. Soon, however, 
I picked it up myself, much to the dismay of my mom.  I've now 
dropped the habit since I now live in South Carolina, but every once 
in a while, I catch myself using the form.

Trina