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Re: Subject / Object / ?

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, September 13, 2004, 10:01
En réponse à Joe :


>Personally, I'd agree with that
So basically, you're saying that it's acceptable to be unable to analyse your own sentences. I can't agree with that.
> - but what about in language classes?
Surely English classes for English speakers *are* language classes ;) .
>Surely it's neccesary to learn it there.(though, having said that, I've >just remembered that the main language learned is Spanish, which doesn't >have cases...)
The more useful those concepts are then! The concepts of subject and object are mainly useful in Indo-European languages without cases, where you cannot just indicate the noun's case to know its function. Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>