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Re: Latin Grammar Dilemma

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Friday, November 29, 2002, 8:35
 --- Christian Thalmann skrzypszy:

> > |uoló té ésse| 'i want to eat you' > > |uoló ut [tú] édás| 'i want you to eat' > > > > apperently some clauses usually expressed with |ut| + > > subj can in poetry take an infinitive, but the > > examples they give are verbs like 'urge' which would > > rule out having the same subject for both. furthermore > > the subject of the infinitive doesn't seem to be > > expressed > > OK... I guess I'll just stick to the |ud| construction > in the general case, then.
Either that, or leave the ambiguity (after all Jovian is not a loglang). Or solve the matter with word order prescriptions like English does ("I want to eat you" vs. "I want you to eat"). FWIW.
> PS: I just found the coolest Latin word in my dictionary... > |dênâsâre| "to remove the nose of". ;-) I had to import it > into Jovian right away.
Cool indeed. I'll adopt it into Wenedyk too: |dzienazar| "to begin" (trans.) Jan ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com