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Re: [txeqli] Basic idea



Indeed so. But what disambiguates "I thee" from "we"?

>>> rayber@hidden.email 03/06/02 02:01pm >>>
And & Rex:-> I was actually wondering how to tell the difference between
"I thee" and "we", e.g. "I thee wed", versus "We wed".
The thought of having to insert a compound blocker to
prevent "I thee" parsing as "we" seems rather unattractive
and unnatural.

Ray:-> ."thee" is the object of the transitive verb "wed". .in "we wed (each other/reciprocally) = we (get married) to each other", the verb seems to be intransitive.