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Re: USAGE: 'born'

From:David Peterson <digitalscream@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 8, 2001, 6:30
In a message dated 5/7/01 10:46:22 PM, alrivera@SOUTHERN.EDU writes:

<< There isn't a proper one in English.  But I know the passive form
<morirse> of

<morir> is perfectly allowable in Spanish. >>

    That's not a passive, it's a reflexive, and it doesn't really mean
that...  Of course, I have no linguistic background in Spanish, just a spoken
background, and that just kind of means "to die".  I don't know what the
difference is, exactly.

-David