Re: Relay
| From: | Isaac A. Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 5, 2003, 6:57 |
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Katav Steg Belsky:
> > Or Hebrew in the present tense...
> > Yitzik
>
> It's true we would then know everyone's correct gender, but we wouldn't
> know if they were talking about themself, the reader of the email, or
> someone else! :-P
Well, in the present tense (old active participle) you MUST use personal
pronouns, this helps. But what i REALLY like is the absense of any
difference between 2m.sn and 3f.sn, and 2f.pl and 3f.pl forms in the future
tense (old imperfect). That's fun, and completely Ebisedian!
> "lema`aneikh etein gam ferret"?
What on earth is this "ferret" he's gonna give for thy sake?
Yitzik
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