Re: A new translation exercise (was: lexicons)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 1, 1999, 0:55 |
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John Fisher wrote:
> Cwand inye caro-lorye pani lisnien,
> when speaker-ATR three-grand-ATR father be.young-person
>
> en
> person
Why is person indicated seperately, if _lisnien_ already means
"person"? Is there some reason or is htis just an idiosyncracy of that
verb?
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