Re: OT: sorta OT: cases: please help...

Quoting Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>:
>    :-/  I've never been able to figure out how/why je/me are clitics,
> mainly because the only thing I know for sure is a clitic is "que" of
> Latin "[X] [Y]que," and I could even be wrong about that.
English has lots of clitics.  "n't", "'m" (for am), "'re",
"'s" (for is), "'s" (for possessive), "'em" (plural "them"), etc.
French is only confusing because it doesn't write je/me as such,
unlike English and Latin. (Greek didn't mark at least one as such
either: <te> "and" is always written as if it were a freestanding
particle, though it changes the phonology of preceding words like
an enclitic)

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