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Re: The last enemy

From:Eugene Oh <un.doing@...>
Date:Sunday, August 5, 2007, 2:02
2007/8/5, Douglas Koller <laokou@...>:
(snip)
> > Kore wa tada hitotsu no mita koto ga nai eiga desu. > this/top. only see/past thing/subj. not-be movie be >
This somehow feels different from "Kore wa mita koto ga nai tada hitotsu no (or yuiitsu no) eiga desu", which I expected, and whose arrangement appears more natural to me. Also, I think "nai" means "not-have" rather than "not-be", which would be "de nai", "dewa nai" etc. Eugene