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Re: Spoken Thoughts

From:Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>
Date:Saturday, December 30, 2000, 16:49
On 29  Dec, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

<snip>

>> In addition to the indefinite and definite articles, "-uh" and
"-luh",
>> rtemmu >> also has an "indeterminant" article, "-nuh", which is used for talking
about
>> something of which one instance of it is definitely known, but whether
the
>> instance is unique or not is not known. > > >What a lovely idea! :-)
Thanks!
>I bet scientists would like it.
Actually, science was the inspiration: the result of reading lots of articles about all kinds of research out there on the "cutting edge", where great discoveries are waiting to be replicated or more examples discovered! Dan Sulani -------------------------------------------------------------------- likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a. A word is an awesome thing.