Re: Neither here nor there.
| From: | jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 1, 2001, 19:19 |
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bjm10@CORNELL.EDU sikayal:
> When puzzling over Praxian article endings (indefinite, definite, and
> demonstrative), for the life of me, I could not figure out just HOW they
> differentiated between local demonstrative "this thing" and distant
> demonstrative "that thing"--then it hit me. Praxian does not distinguish
> between local and distant!
This is actually attested in real languages. Ancient Greek had one word
"entautha" meaning "here" or "there," and words "erkhomai" and "eimi"
meaning "to come" or "to go." And they weren't even nomadic ;-).
Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
"If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are
perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in
frightful danger of seeing it for the first time."
--G.K. Chesterton
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