Re: Lahabic Aspects and Tenses
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 12, 2000, 20:34 |
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Anthony M. Miles wrote:
> I had to rush away for someone more urgent. Feel free to critique the
> system. Are there too many conjugations (asks the man with 33 prefixes)? Too
> few? Do you see a difficulty that I don't? I will cover the persons of the
> verb in a following e-mail. I don't know what I should do about the passive,
> if anything.
[snip]
No, doesn't seem like too many conjugations to me. At least you don't
have a whole system of honorific conjugations on top of it <G>. I saw
patterns in the first part that made the system look easy to learn, then
got confused, probably because I don't know what aorists or jussives
are. :-( Forgive my ignorance....
YHL