Re: Ungrammaticalization?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 16, 1999, 19:28 |
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Sally Caves wrote:
> This REALLY aggravates me. Age? Distraction? Anxiety?
> Drugs? Allergies?
I should hope it's not age, cause I'm only 20 and I sometimes do that
same thing! God forbid it should get worse when I'm older! :-) I
suspect it's distraction/stress.
> Niffodyr tweluenrem lis teuim an.
> "The gods have retractible claws."
> from _The Gospel of Bastet_
I just love that sig. Does it mean that the Gods can be vengeful at
times, but at other times hold back their wrath?
--
"[H]e axed after eggys: And the goode wyf answerde, that she coude not
speke no Frenshe ... And then at last a nother sayd that he woulde haue
hadde eyren: then the goode wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel." --
William Caxton
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