Re: USAGE: Verbs and verb compounds

charles a =E9crit :

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> > i wonder whether english native speakers around the world will still
> > understand each other in a century.
Actually, since 1776, we haven't.

:-)

> I hope not! But it will be centuries, if not millenia before the world
> is as interesting linguistically again as it was a century ago.
And there *was* a European (Mediterranean) interlingua,
"the" Lingua Franca, but it died somewhen around 1850,
or perhaps survives in all the other so-called pidgins.
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i read it was merely a business pidgin (?)

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English put too many neat verbs into the preposition class; "be-in"
"get-on" etc. Please list the innumerable Japanese compound verbs,
so we can Star-Wars or perposit them into English.
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you're right : i never thought of such english verbs as compound verbs !=20
well, personally i don't find japanese compound verbs much easier to learn o=
r=20
more logical than their english counterparts. but japanese usually claim so.=20
the good stuff in japanese is not the compound verbs but the "suspensive=20
form" -te or -i/e to make SOVSOVSOV series. actually you don't even need tha=
t=20
to make SVOSVOSVO series.

for instance let's take A, B and C as S or O.
let's have a SVOSVOSVO sequence  AVB BVC (AVB BVC)VC
pronoun a is for A, b is for B.
proclause i is for AVB, ii is for (AVB BVC)

AVB BVC (AVB BVC)VC is now :  AVB bVC iiVC

or something like that. it's no more difficult than that/who/which series.

mathias