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
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