Re: Missing Words
From: | M. Å. <moriquende@...> |
Date: | Saturday, March 16, 2002, 20:09 |
>
>I don't have "have", but that's because my native doesn't either - I'm a
>sinner. ;) To my defence, I use different construction to get over it: to
>say "I have a son", one must say
>Lor sate faani.
>"Exists boy my."
>or "There is a boy that's mine."
>I had thought this was pretty original,
>
([Sensored] I hit "Send" accidentally too fast. Sorry, seems like I can't do
anything without causing small disasters. :)
...until someone mentioned that Russian does it similarly - at least in some
cases.
Sigh. But I guess that "if it works, somebody must have used it before!"
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