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Re: Some more Madzhi grammar

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Monday, March 18, 2002, 3:16
Frank George Valoczy scripsit:

> This is used in a sense like the former example. It is used to make a verb > which it is the characteristic of the noun to do - a house houses. But the > dog doesn't necessarily dog.
In Lojban a dog certainly does dog, not in the English sense of 'to dog', of course. "He dogs my footsteps with the incompetent zeal of fifty Watsons." --Lord Peter Wimsey -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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