Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Those idiots again
From: chefurka@sympatico.ca (Paul Chefurka)
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 16:52:16 GMT

On Sun, 07 Nov 1999 10:58:24 -0500, Marc James Small
<msmall@roanoke.infi.net> wrote:

>At 08:40 AM 11/7/1999 +0000, you wrote:
>>Right. Which meant WHAT? Why add "-es"? "Marces" = "Marc his." I don't
>>believe most linguistic scholars (great ones or not) rely entirely on
>>textual evidence of early language, since illiteracy was the common
>>condition and written notation was both rare and entirely
>>unstandardized.
>
>It's an inflected ending, Mike.  It has nothing directly to do with "his".
>Old English was an inflected language, like German, Latin, Russian, or
>Ancient Greek.  I'm relatively well read in Old and Middle English, and the
>construction you suggest -- "Marc, his bucu", simply does not exist, while
>"Marces bucu" is relatively common, though a dative of possession is
>encountered on occasion, as well.

Could you guys *please* take this to private email where it belongs?
IOW - here's a quarter, call someone who cares...

Well, its not that I dont care how apostrophe's are used, I just do'nt
care about their origin's - as, Im sure, d'ont most of the people on
this lis't.

Paul Chefurka