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on 1/27/04 6:12 PM, HandyDad at lsulky@hidden.email wrote: > 1) Is there a marker that separates a subject phrase from a verb > phrase without applying a tense? > > 2) Earlier I was musing that a phrase used as a title would be known > as such by the lack of an article. But that means that if I like > General Jones and I write "Go pipyar jeneral tay Jonz", then I can > only identify the boundary between the verb and the object if I know > that "pipyar" can only be a verb and "jeneral" can only be a noun. So > maybe we do need an article that says "title"? > Why not.... Go pipyar to jeneral tay jonz French does it that way, I believe. We could consider it short for Go pipyar to jeneral hu bi tay jonz Or we can scrunch 'hu bi' into 'hwi' Go pipyar to jeneral hwi tay jonz All would be permitted, but the first method would be used where no confusion would result. Hm? -- Rex F. May (Baloo) Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/book-GesundheitDummy.htm