Re: Cookbook title

> Date:         Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:48:44 -0400
> From: Shreyas Sampat <nsampat@...>
>
> : > >Karmontu Tutas
> : > >
> : > >Which can mean either "Cooking for the People"
> : > >Or
> : > >"Cooking the People."
>
> What sort of mystical construction makes this possible?
Any language where direct and indirect objects take the same case, and
to cook happens to be a ditransitive verb.

Like in English, where you can omit either oblique argument of the
verb to serve, without any surface indication of which is left:

     I'll serve the children the fish now.
     I'll serve the children now.
     I'll serve the fish now.

(While you can say "I cooked my sister a fish dinner" in English, you
will find that "I cooked for my sister" works best).

Also see To Serve Man: A Cookbook for People, ISBN 1880448823.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)

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