Re: Tiny Grammar
| From: | Don Blaheta <dpb@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 17, 1999, 6:14 |
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Quoth charles:
> Exactly; "three four five add3" would mean "twelve" ... and doesn't THAT look
> weird? Anything with a "dative" argument could work, somewhat well, by making
> the "verb" a "3". So, "john it mary give3". But what to do with adverbs,
> "john it mary yesterday? give3", I don't know.
"Yesterday" is a word that takes one argument, a sentence, and returns a
sentence.
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