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Re: Love Those Double Vowels (was: Diving In...)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, November 12, 2001, 4:54
Muke Tever wrote:
> It is, though, even though we only have it in two English words, both of them > pronouns that go the same way: > > m.e m.y m.ine > th.ee th.y th.ine
To call those inflectional paradigms is rather stretching the term, IMO. Even if there's historically an inflectional ending there (I'm not sure if there is), in synchronic terms, they're merely coincidental similarities. -- ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

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Muke Tever <alrivera@...>