Re: ?? Re: a "natural language" ?
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 4, 2004, 6:37 |
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From: Joe <joe@...>
> The only suppletive form that I can think of that still retains a
> seperate root is 'fast~quickly', if that counts.
Or better: 'person' and its suppletive plural 'people'. ('Persons'
exists, but only in Bureaucratese.)
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Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally,
Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right
University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of
1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter.
Chicago, IL 60637
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