Re: Tempus
| From: | E-Ching Ng <e-ching.ng@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 8, 2001, 0:50 |
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Hi DHS,
Sorry if I'm asking a totally dumb question, but what is tempus?
And can we really say that one natlang is older than another?
E-Ching
At 07:51 PM 3/6/2001 +0100, Mefistofeles wrote:
>Me and some friends (we are studying Chinese together) were discussing the
>fact that Chinese do not have Tempus. Chinese is one of the oldest and
>largest of all languages and it's don good with adverb of time. We came to
>the conclusion that either Chinese would be the perfect auxiliary
>languages or a constructed language with similarly structure, any
>comments? (By the way Swedish is my main language, just so you do not
>think I do not advocate my mother language).
>/DHS
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