Re: Article about "new" Conlang

Nik Taylor wrote:
> Garth Wallace wrote:
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>>Japanese has no plural marking for nouns
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> It does, actually.  Two active suffixes, in fact.  -tachi and -gata;
> -gata being more respectful.  However, they're never obligatory (except
> with pronouns), and are rare with non-human nouns.
Huh. I didn't realize that "-tachi" could be suffixed to anything but
"watashi". You learn something new every day...