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Re: "To be" or not "to be"? (was Re: TRANS: something slightly more deep)

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Monday, February 7, 2000, 3:30
paulnkathy@earthlink.net writes:
> >I maybe haven't been paying attention as much as I should, but are you >saying that W. and Saalangal lack a simple equivalent to the verb "exist"?
No, there is a verb for "to exist" which is what I could have used alternately (I used "to happen"). However, there is no verb "to be", meaning no copula.
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