Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sander van Hulsenbeek wrote >Slovenian language has three differentiations by persons: Singular, Plural, >> >and Dual (two persons). There are only two other languages in the world >that >> >have Dual as well. > >And those are? > >Indonesian langauges ( Bahasa as a common denominator) have two different >'we' : >Kami, being the speaker and the opposite person, and Kita, being we all, >everywhere. > >Is that like what you mean? Decades (and decades, and decades) ago, a professor of mine, who had spent his life studying semitic epigraphy, remarked in class that in Arabic every word has five meanings: its primary meaning, a second meaning diametrically opposed to that, a special meaning in theology, a special obscene meaning, and a special meaning related to the camel. I was greatly impressed by so multi-purpose a language ;-) Cordially Dan Bowdoin