Re: Back to the Future (was: I'm back, sort of)

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From: "Costentin Cornomorus" <elemtilas@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: Back to the Future (was: I'm back, sort of)


> --- Joe <joe@...> wrote:
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> > And as English barely ever uses the simple
> > present, English can be said to be pro-drop in
> > the present tense.
>
> Actually, English uses the simple present all the
> time; it's just not the "simple present" we were
> taught at school.
>
> If I say "I eat pease" that doesn't mean I have a
> bowl of peas in front of me now and am tucking
> in. It means that in general I am in the habit of
> eating that particular vegetable.
>
> If I want to use the present to denote what I'm
> actually doing now, I'd say "I'm eating peas
> now".
Except that's not simple.  I meant simple as opposed to composite, not
simple as in normal.

> Padraic.
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> - Per y feregrinnes et celles ke itenont tras y therres, et per y vor, et
tras y haires, et per l' yspas; per y fenitendo; per y chateckeumenando; et
per y cheistiv
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> - A Ddon ten mezer!
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