If so, then why did he have to be so rude with me for absolutely no reason? Besides, I left the reference at my original post.Matrix wrote:He's asking for you to cite your claim, in a very sarcastic way.
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- Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:49 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Certain aspects of grammar (big discussion!)
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Re: Certain aspects of grammar (big discussion!)
- Thu Oct 29, 2015 7:33 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Certain aspects of grammar (big discussion!)
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Re: Certain aspects of grammar (big discussion!)
The SPACE IS TIME metaphor is so common that it would be a bit weird not to have it. What's perhaps more interesting is that humans don't all agree on what direction time flows, so don't just copy the English idea that time is ahead of us. There was a South Native American tribe, if I remember corr...
- Thu Oct 29, 2015 3:07 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Certain aspects of grammar (big discussion!)
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Re: Certain aspects of grammar (big discussion!)
The SPACE IS TIME metaphor is so common that it would be a bit weird not to have it. What's perhaps more interesting is that humans don't all agree on what direction time flows, so don't just copy the English idea that time is ahead of us. There was a South Native American tribe, if I remember corr...
- Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:41 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
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Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
I know that the personal pronouns in PIE have an enclitic form, but what specifically are their, let's say, "usage" ?