Teeth, Braces, and the English Language or Variations there of.

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190319

> Geoff:
> As a native speaker of UK English, I would ONLY interpret this
comment by Hermione as a reference to an event in the past
continuing on. In no way would it indicate to me that it was a
> future possibility suggested by Mr. and Mrs. Granger.

> Lynda:
> As a person who works with kids with different levels of speech
fluency and reads almost all the time that she's not working,
talking to someone, writing or crocheting something or other and
who listens to something or other all the time because a noiseless
enviroment is creepy, I think that Hermione, like many kids her
age was using a common phrase for something that had not yet
happened. I see it all the time with more speech confident Special
Ed and Regular Ed kids. We're always having to ask them if
something has occurred yet only to have them say "No. After school"
or "this weekend" or "Next year" or something. Granted, a lot of
the kids I work with are SE which means they're verbal skills
aren't always the greatest, but I hear this not only at work, but
at church, at Jr. orchestra workshops (which are with RE kids) with
kids (and adults) on the bus. People just don't always live in a
straight timeline verbally. They're speech isn't always perfect
> and that's what I think happened with Hermione/Rowling here.


June:
I am with Geoff here, Lynda. You are referring to kids with
learning disabilities. At what point did you get the idea that
Hermione had one? Hermione is a student beyond her years and it
is likely that she would speak with proper or near proper English
and grammar because of this. Also personally I don't know anyone
who speaks in the present about future events, to me that is just
plain silly.