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Re: new parts of speech/cases

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 1, 2002, 1:47
From: "Jake X" <alwaysawake247@...>

> This all reminds me of a thread I remember on some newsgroup about
pronouns
> vs. proverbs. And if there are words that stand for a previous verb.
Anyway,
> sorry I'm not really commenting on your categories, but I agree: parts of > speech are not cut and dried.
In Tech, you can make many nouns into verbs and vice versa by moving the vowel -- nouns tend to have the vowel closer to the front and verbs toward the back (the vast majority of words are one- or two-syllable). I get the terms "preverb" and "proverb" confused, or are they the same thing? You also have "auxilliary verbs" which can go before or after a verb depending on the language and syntax. ~Danny~