Re: very confused - syntax question

At 8:56 am -0500 6/7/99, J.Barefoot wrote:
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>Are you serious? Wow, that's great.
I'm sure Mathias is - and it is great  :)

>And all this time I thought I was just
>bad at learning natlangs.  I guess its because I expect them to do
>everything english does? And you're saying they don't, even in their own
>interesting ways?
No, they don't.  None are quite like English - and the more interesting are
very unlike English in the way they do things  :)

One of the most enjoyable things about discovering different languages is
that one never ceases to find something new - and I've been doing this for
half a century now  :)

Yes, it is great.

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>
>What exactly do you mean "make it a voice"? I must not understand the term
>"voice."
active - passive - middle etc, and, of course, this darn medio-passive that
we seem to keep on about  :)

Ray.

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