Re: 2nd person inanimate (WAS: Numbers from 1 to 12 in Ayeri)
| From: | John Leland <lelandconlang@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 18, 2004, 2:08 |
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In a message dated 6/17/04 7:22:08 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
mark@POLYMATHIX.COM writes:
<< Brick walls are inanimate, aren't they? >>
There is that stone wall in Pyarmus and Thisbe (in Shakespeare's MIdsummer
Night's Dream), addressed as "O Wall..." but perhaps this wall does not count
as inanimate
since it speaks to the audience, and later when Pyramus curses it Theseus
comments
"the wall, being sensible" (i.e. intelligent) "should curse again."
John Leland