Re: do be do be do
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 24, 1999, 22:14 |
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Fabian wrote:
>
> My French lecturer recently said that every language needs teh verbs be and
> have.
Hmmm, that's odd. Why would he say that? I can think of languages
without a verb for "to be" (such as Russian in the present) and those
without "to have" (Irish [Celtic in general?], Hebrew (I think))
--
"It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father
was hanged." - Irish proverb
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