Re: Basque genitives

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From: "Nik Taylor" <yonjuuni@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 3:35 AM
Subject: Re: Basque genitives


> Joe wrote:
> > For me, "Yesterday's dinner" more implies 'the dinner which was made
> > yesterday'.  As in "You can have yesterday's dinner for breakfast"
>
> I'd probably say "You can have leftovers from last night's dinner for
> breakfast" ("yesterday" just sounds funny to me when talking about
> something at night or in the evening).  I'd understand that sentence,
> but it would sound very odd.
>
> Actually, I'd be most likely to just say "You can have leftovers from
> last night for breakfast"
>
> Would you say something like "Last night's dinner was very good"?  Or
> would you have to say "The dinner we ate last night was very good"?
No, I would say "Last night's dinner was very good".  That implies, of
course, that you know, since you ate it.

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