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Re: Human Song

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 13:32
Quoting Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>:

> As to why I keep a strict word order despite a subject > marker: it is an aesthetic issue.
Reasonable. But there are languages that do that anyways. Turkish, for example, has lots of case markers, and yet it has a very rigid SOV word order.
> And for more complicated grammar: > "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him > drink." > > 2nd pers affix + "able" + "lead" + present tense affix
Is this really second person? The English original "you" is a generic, more like "one". (It's okay if it is.) ===================================================================== Thomas Wier <trwier@...> <http://home.uchicago.edu/~trwier> "...koruphàs hetéras hetére:isi prosápto:n / Dept. of Linguistics mú:tho:n mè: teléein atrapòn mían..." University of Chicago "To join together diverse peaks of thought / 1010 E. 59th Street and not complete one road that has no turn" Chicago, IL 60637 Empedocles, _On Nature_, on speculative thinkers

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