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Re: Article about "new" Conlang

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Thursday, February 6, 2003, 7:11
Nik Taylor wrote:
> Garth Wallace wrote: > >>Japanese has no plural marking for nouns > > > 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...