On 12/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jef Allbright</b> <<a href="mailto:jef@jefallbright.net">jef@jefallbright.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Mike Dougherty wrote:<br><br>Incorrect. See the line containing "Ve, Ve laughed, I hit ver, Vis face<br>bled, I am vis, Ve shaves verself" in the table at<br><<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun</a>>. My source, IIRC,<br>is Vinge.</blockquote><div><br>I get the distinction between object and subject, but it doesn't seem to "stick" for me. </div>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">My favorite outstanding example is "sick" meaning some sense of "good".
</blockquote><div><br>Which must cause more confusion for the british :)<br></div></div>