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Re: Artlangers vs. auxlangers (was Re: Tell your conlang story!)

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 1, 2006, 14:28
Hi!

"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> writes:
> On 3/1/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote: > > Please! You have prejudices against auxlangers, ok, but this does not > > mean we want to risk a flamewar here. > > Ahm. I don't mean to be rude, but you seem to have made a grammatical > error here, and as a non-native English speaker, I thought you might > appreciate a correction.
I do! :-)
> The verb "to have prejudices" is quite irregular, and in fact only > resembles its infinitive in the third person: "he has prejudices". > The second person form is "you have biases".
Really? That's a funny irregularity. That was a translato then. :-)
> (The first-person form is, of course, "I have keen insight into > general truths.")
Yeah that's most natural :-) **Henrik -- Relay 13 is running: http://www.conlang.info/relay/relay13.html

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