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Re: A new translation exercise (was: lexicons)

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 31, 1999, 22:48
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:

> [she went] by foot [foot is a noun that agrees with its posessor in > gender]
Now that's a pretty neat feature! And, in a very basic way, makes perfect sense; as she couldn't very well have a masculine foot. Unless it were translplanted ... Do other body parts agree like this as well? I can't imagine that only feet would do so. Padraic.
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