Re: [Waaay OT] Re: V2, not SVO

>From: Joe <joe@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: [Waaay OT] Re: V2, not SVO
>Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:45:24 +0100
>
>Keith Gaughan wrote:
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>>Steven Williams wrote:
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>>>--- Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...> schrieb:
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>>>>In early modern English, this would have been:
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>>>>   The television works not.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>What a charming anachronism! :)
>>>
>>>
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>>We can do better than that:
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>>    The television worketh not.
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>>I'm sure that's how they'd say it in IB.
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>I suspect the IB-English for 'television' is 'farsee'.  It just seems
>right.
IIRC, in IB they call the set a 'televisor', so
"The televisor worketh not."


-Wayne Chevrier