Re: TRANS: Fw: names of ants

On Mon, 1 May 2000 17:21:01 +0300 Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>
writes:
> And if we're including natlangs too, in Hebrew it would be:
>
> af exad zoxer shemot shel nemalim .
>
> (Although, on the street, most people would probably
> use a grammatically incorrect double-negative by adding "lo" (=no):
> af exad lo zoxer shemot shel nemalim. )
>
> Dan Sulani
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That's grammatically incorrect?
I had a very knowledgable Hebrew teacher in highschool make us insert the
_lo'_.  She said that "there is nothing intrinsically negative in _af
ehhad_, so you need _lo'_ to make it negative".
What effect would changing _shemot_ to _shemotam_ have?


-Stephen (Steg)
 "sleep, like a fog, blew over him."  ~  _gilgamesh_