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Re: Tech _hay_

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 10, 2001, 4:39
From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>

| Danny Wier wrote:
|
| >Yeah, I don't like the name "case"; it's no more a case than a comparative
| or
| >superlative.  What's a better grammatical term?
|
|
| Well, now that you bring up _degrees of comparison_, perhaps _degrees of
| [something to do with nouns......].

Honorific came to mind; of course that's found in Japanese and Korean.  I think
that's more connected with pronouns and finite verbs though.

~DaW~


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