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--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...>
wrote:
> on 1/27/04 6:12 PM, HandyDad at lsulky@r... wrote:
>
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>
> 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?
>
>
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I'm good with articles preceding titles:
"Poja to jeneral tay Smith" = 'Stop General Smith'
Whenever we have consecutive noun phrases without an
intervening conjunction or verb, then we're talking about the
same thing: 'My mother, the car'; 'the general, (the) Smith'. I don't
see a need for anything more.
Now, how do we indicate that we are addressing someone:
'Stop, General Smith! General Smith! Stop!'
Different article? Variant form of article? Mark the verb as an
imperative (to the person addressed? or to a third party?)?
Maybe a general purpose exclamatory marker -- something
equivalent to 'Yo!' ("ho!" or "hoy!" or "haw!"?) -- meaning 'I need
the attention of...' or 'I address...'?
[Usual disclaimer that in casual speech, a lot of this rigour can
be dispensed with.]
---Krawn