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Re: "I didn't know that..."

From:Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...>
Date:Monday, March 13, 2006, 15:43
On 3/12/06, Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "R A Brown" <ray@...>
> > Exactly. Although way back in PIE times the 'proto-subjunctiv' did have an > > irrealis usage
> Okay, Ray, perfect! If you keep this up, people like Mark and myself will > eventually copy you, and write "subjunctiv." What other more visible > listservs are you on? How many other fellow writers write it this way? In
In Charles Sprague's _Handbook of Volapük_ (1887; online: http://personal.southern.edu/~caviness/Volapuk/HBoV/hbv.htm) he uses the same forms for grammatical terms in -iv and and also "masculin" and "feminin". "Upon the recommendation of the American Philological Association and of the London Philological Society, I have dropped the final e, misleading and unhistorical, from such words as "infinitiv," "feminin," etc." -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm

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