Re: Tasratal: sketch: connectives (long)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 27, 2001, 3:10 |
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Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> Hmm...perhaps in a case like the following:
> "Yoon and Darth Vader are practicing lightsaber(wo)manship," where the
> understanding is that Yoon and Darth Vader *just happen* to be doing the
> same thing, but otherwise there's no connection (and they might not even
> be aware that they're doing the same thing). Or rather, the connection is
> coincidental.
That reminds me of an ambiguity I've come upon a few times, a sentence
like "Two of my friends got engaged". Does that mean one engagement, or
two? I.e., did they get engaged *to each other* or *to other people*?
Uatakassi wouldn't have a problem with that, well, actually it would,
since there's no concept of marriage :-), but, if there were, the
reciprocative voice would be used if it's one engagement, and the active
if two.
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