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on 1/21/04 9:00 PM, HandyDad at lsulky@hidden.email wrote:
> --- 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?
Yes. If you think about it, it's actually a reverser for verbs, also.
Go fir zi.
Zi befir go.
I fear you.
You are feared by me. (or, 'you scare me')
Because it reverses the position of subject and object.
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