----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:13:16PM +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > The tendency for lengthy verb strongs is pretty pangermanic; "I will
have
> > been ..." is only too common in English.
>
> Which just goes back to the poverty of tenses in Proto-Germanic. We had
to
> construct the missing ones by stringing verbs together. :)
What's wrong with "I will have been", anyway? How else can we express the
Passive Future Perfect?
> -Mark
>