Re: Hutt
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 9, 1999, 0:08 |
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JOEL MATTHEW PEARSON wrote:
> Perhaps Huttese allows pronouns to be left
> out if understood from context, as in Japanese.
> How about this analysis:
Hmm, possibly. I recall reading in Hawaiian Pidgin English, the
sentence (spoken by a Japanese immigrant) "Me cap=E9 buy. Me check make"
could mean, depending on context, "He bought my coffee. He made out my
check" or "I bought coffee. I made out a check", essentially a literal
translation from Japanese minus particles ("watashi no koohii [bought]"
=3D [he] bought my coffee; "watashi wa koohii [bought]" =3D "I bought
coffee" Assuming that the Huttese substrate language was like that, it
would make sense for Huttese to be that way.
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