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Re: Re : Re: Re : Case, Innateness, Almost Allnoun, NGL.

From:Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...>
Date:Monday, August 9, 1999, 15:21
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, grandsir wrote:

> If you refer to a person first using his/her title (President, Captain, > Boss, etc...), you'll refer to him/her then not using his/her title > again, but using the word "fokezif". In the same way, you have the word > "zi|sun" for measure units (with the difference that this word can be > used also to mean "degree"). So as you see, the translation "a titled > person" doesn't fit here, as the title must already be known.
Something like "your/his/her eminence" or "excellency"? Irina Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastynay. irina@rempt.xs4all.nl (myself) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/index.html (English) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/backpage.html (Nederlands)