Re: Evidentials for a future English
| From: | Muke Tever <hotblack@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 21, 2004, 18:53 |
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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:
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> "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!
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