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Re: "to be" and not to be in the world's languages

From:Rob Haden <magwich78@...>
Date:Thursday, March 23, 2006, 1:10
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:07:44 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
wrote:

>On 3/22/06, Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote: >> What about Slavic languages, e.g. Russian? Is the following allowed: >> "Alexei nyet doktor" = "Alexei is not (a) doctor"? > >That's "Alexei no doctor"; you want „не", not „нет": "Alexei (is) not >(a) doctor" is „Алексей не доктор".
D'oh! That's right -- stupid me. I'll blame it on English influence, since it has the reverse situation. :P Thanks for the confirmation though! :) - Rob