Re: Korahamla lives!
| From: | Amanda Babcock <langs@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 15, 2002, 14:06 |
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On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 08:55:35AM -0500, Amanda Babcock wrote:
> > > bveaj : the tien/la holds.
> >
> > the genitive of 'ba': you, and thus means 'yours' (le tien/la tienne in
> > French. Strange that Babelfish cannot even translate this basic
> > vocabulary...).
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> Oh, I don't think Babelfish had any problem with "le" or "tienne". It
> just didn't know what this strange word "tien/la" was :)
Oh, I see what you mean, now. They translated "tienne" as "holds". I
think this is because they thought it couldn't be a noun since there was
already a noun *tien/la :)
Amanda