Re: Person marking on nouns?
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 26, 2004, 9:29 |
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At 11:54 25/02/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>I've heard of (natural) languages where women use
>different words than men (there are words reserved to
>men, and other to women), but I can't remember where
>it was. My memory seems to get weary. Any one for help
>?
Japanese does this to a certain extent - there are men-only expressions and
women-only expressions. This leads to the phenomenon of "pillow Japanese",
as spoken by gaijin who have learnt the language from their Japanese wives,
and don't know that they're speaking female style.
On the subject of Nihongo, I learned the following interesting structure
yesterday.
The sentences
koko ni empitsu ga arimasu
"There is a pencil here."
asoko ni hon ga arimasu
"There is a book over there"
may be combined as
koko ni empitsu ga ari, asoko ni hon ga arimasu.
Using a reduced form of the verb to combine sentences.
Pete
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