Re: Edible and Drinkable Pronouns?

In the last episode, (On Monday 02 July 2007 22:21:56), David J. Peterson
wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
> <<
> Just caught up on this. Looks like body-part nouns are inalienable
> and take a
> suffix?
>
>
> If they're inalienable, doesn't that mean they shouldn't require
> a suffix--e.g., you'd just say "the head", and that'd mean "my
> head"...?
>
My understanding is that "inalienable" means "cannot be unpossessed", e.g. you
couldn't say "I saw a [disembodied] head lying on the ground", but would have
to say "I saw someone's head lying on the ground".

Jeff
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