Re: Chinese writing systems
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 3, 2002, 4:53 |
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Nik Taylor scripsit:
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> Florian Rivoal wrote:
> > for example, the pronoun for he/she/it has the same pronounciation
> > "ta" [tha].
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> Same pronunciation as what? Or are you saying that "he", "she", and
> "it" are homophones? They're not homophones, they ARE the same word!
Well, not really. The normal word for "it" is zero; ta1 means he/she.
There are some exceptions now due to translationese.
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