Re: The Arrogants and the sillies (RE: Euros and cents)

From: Patrick Andries (pandries@iti.qc.ca)
Date: Tue Mar 26 2002 - 19:16:03 EST


Kenneth Whistler wrote:

>>I don't remember any more: How many verb forms are there in Attic Greek?
>>
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>Too dang many. ;-)
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Can (may) a linguist express such a value statement? Even with that new
punctuation called a smiley. Are there some languages more "optimized"
than others? I sometimes wonder.

>
>voice: active, middle, passive
>mood: indicative, subjunctive, optative, imperative, infinitive, participle
>tense: present, imperfect, future, aorist, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect
>
Middle voice and aorist subtleties : a Belgian teenager's joy...

Patrick Andries



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