Re: R: Re: New to the list

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Patrick Dunn wrote:

[yhl]
> > Probably you'd say something like "I have 14 summers," though I'm still
> > figuring out how to express "to have" (probably going to use the verb
> > "to exist" instead of creating a new verb).  This would only count the
> > summers you'd lived through, plus the womb-time.
>
> YOu could do what Biblical Hebrew does:
>
> yesh li sus
> There.is to.me horse
> I have a horse
>
> I've always found that elegant.
<pondering>  I like it, but I'll have to see whether I'm going to even
have a copula.  Thanks for the suggestion!

YHL