Re: Tempus

Tempus is latin for "time, tense"

And I think we can indeed say one natlang is older than another. Icelandic
is older than Norwegian; Latin is older than Italian; Lithuanian is
probably older than any other IE language...

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, E-Ching Ng wrote:

> 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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