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Re: Edible and Drinkable Pronouns?

From:Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...>
Date:Monday, July 2, 2007, 21:57
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 -- "Please understand that there are small European principalities devoted to debating Tcl vs. Perl as a tourist attraction." -- Cameron Laird

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