Re: NATLANG: Dutch (jara: Has anyone made a real conlang?)
| From: | Robert B Wilson <han_solo55@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 27, 2003, 18:41 |
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On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 23:54:37 -0700 Elliott Lash <erelion12@...>
writes:
> --- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:>
> > In the Scottish Tragedy (it's thought to be
> > excruciatingly bad luck to
> > name it), Macbeth says, when Lady Macbeth challenges
> > him,
> >
> > I dare do all that may become a man;
> > Who dares do more, is none.
> >
> > This is pure modal use; "become" = "be appropriate
> > to", now lost except
> > in the adjective "becoming" = "fitting, appropriate;
> > attractive, beautiful".
> > I had occasion to quote this yesterday.
> >
>
> Well....I could also say: "X does not become you"
>
> ...but not in the affirmative: *"X becomes you"
>
> hmm...interesting
i hear it used in the affirmative all the time. it's probably a
dialectal thing...
> Elliott Lash
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