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--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote:
> on 1/21/04 9:43 AM, HandyDad at lsulky@r... wrote:
>
> > --- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Go kyam ti bil, hu be spel he buy, i, luy behe.
> >
> >
> > You meant "bi spel", not "be spel", yes? ("Be" was the old word to
> > mark a passive construct, but it now is the marker that ends a
> > previously marked construction, correct?)
>
> No. I meant 'be spel' in the passive sense. And I meant the 'be'
to simply
> make an analogous 'opposite effect to turn an opening parenthesis
into a
> close. I did misspell above. It should end with 'behu', closing
off the
> hu-clause.
So "be" serves as a 'reverser' or closing marker for punctuation, and
serves as a passive marker for verbs?