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Re: Evidentials for a future English

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Thursday, October 21, 2004, 18:53
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:00:51 -0400, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On the subject of future English, it seems likely to me likely that the > English of the near future will have lost the verbs for arithmetic > operations, replacing them with the reading of their signs. Viz: > > "If you times 2 by 2, you get 4."
The worst part [or best, depending on your POV] is that these are _verbs_, and you get forms like "timesed" and "timesing". *Muke! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/

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