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Re: THEORY: more questions

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 21:52
Padraic Brown wrote:

> I'm sure that in Kerno any of those verbs can > postpend a bare dative pronoun, cantami, > ycrivemi, etc. You generally switch to a preverb > and infixed pronoun with DO, though: domcanta yan > gancièn, domecrive yan garta. >
Kerno is a Romance Language of Noble Lineage, so that's not surprising. Spanish certainly, Italian maybe, can do it too (don't know about Französisch)-- ¡Escríbame! ¡Dígame! (some people answer the phone with this) ¡Cántame! Except for the first, good translation practice would call for "[verb] to me"....