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on 3/6/02 8:07 AM, And Rosta at arosta@hidden.email wrote: > 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. I think we're into the Gödel area of grammar. Anyhow, I'm inclined towards the suggestion of a verb/adjective/adverb meaning 'act reciprocally'. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/