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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!" _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com