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on 1/22/04 6:16 AM, Rex May - Baloo at rmay@hidden.email wrote:
> 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.
No, I didn't. It closes off the 'he', meaning, 'we're done with letter
names ? anything that follows is something else.
>>
>> 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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