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Re: Phenomena

From:Sylvia Sotomayor <sylvia1@...>
Date:Thursday, March 2, 2000, 17:44
At 03:06 03/02/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>I dont know a better term for this, but how do you all say things like >"it's raining" or "it's dripping" without an actual specified agent to do >that action?
That is one of the advantages to not having verbs: la an tárá [there is] rain. la ne tárá [there are] drops. 'la' means that whatever follows exists. an is the collective plural and ne is the distributive plural. -- Sylvia Sotomayor sylvia1@ix.netcom.com Kélen can be found at http://users.lmi.net/sylvia/Kelen/kelen.html "In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax..." John Simon, Paradigms Lost