Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 11:05:01 12/09/00
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On December 09, 2000 at 13:46:16, George Gillespie wrote: >When White delivers checkmate a dialog box opens and the caption is 'Black >Checkmated'. To me that means Black delivered checkmate. should be 'Black is >Checkmated'. Interesting. This is food for semantics. As a non native English speaker I'm no expert, but clearly understand it as "Black is checkmated" instead of "Black checkmated white" as you understand it to be. Isn't it more common to drop the copula than the object? Like "Jeroen flabbergasted" as for "Jeroen *is* flabbergasted" instead of "Jeroen flabbergasted someone", although how true that can be from time to time. Jeroen ;-}
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