[extropy-chat] Language Again

Mike Dougherty msd001 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 29 23:07:20 UTC 2006


On 12/28/06, Jef Allbright <jef at jefallbright.net> wrote:
>
> Mike Dougherty wrote:
>
> Incorrect. See the line containing "Ve, Ve laughed, I hit ver, Vis face
> bled, I am vis, Ve shaves verself" in the table at
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun>.  My source, IIRC,
> is Vinge.


I get the distinction between object and subject, but it doesn't seem to
"stick" for me.

My favorite outstanding example is "sick" meaning some sense of "good".


Which must cause more confusion for the british :)
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