Re: Genitive Relationships again
| From: | Kenji Schwarz <schwarz@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 15, 1999, 20:21 |
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On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
> John Cowan wrote:
> > There is a genre of jokes which claims that English
> > inflects adjectives for person (by suppletion), thus:
> > I am firm, you are stubborn, he is pig-headed.
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> Or, people we like are "freedom fighters", people we don't like are
> "terrorists".
Well, there's also always the old anthropologists' observation that it's
strange how Europe's unrests stem from nationalist ideology, whereas
Africa is simply a hotbed of tribal hatreds.
Kenji