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Eridanian is Accusative-Dative language in Active Voice but is Tripartite-Dative in Passive Voice. In Passive voice transitive sentences the Agent of the sentence takes the Ablative Case and the Patient takes the Accusative Case. Nominative Accusative Ablative e Aon sheablaod (Ann played) e Aon ebla...

Eridanian

--- genetic kin ---
Father: Faodr, daod
Mother: Medr, Maom
Brother: Bredr
Sister: Siezdr
Son: Sen
Daughter: Daotr
Cousin: Kezn
Nephew: Neafçu

--- fictive kin ---
Husband: Ezbend
Wife: Waof

Guitarplayer wrote:English also has no direct translation of German "nervig" or "genervt". If a thing is nervig, it is steppping on your nerves — genervt is the state you are in then.

Irritated? Agitated? Nervous?

Come to West Virginia. Here, some dialects have three distincions: you (singular), y'all (small group), and all y'all (large group/everyone within earshot). !!! O_O !!! A distnction between different types of 2nd personal plural (large group vs. small group) developing? Interesting!!! I might need ...

English is very poor in pronouns. "I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they"... There should be a plural "you". In many dialects, there is. If you were learning American English, you could pick up "y'all". I use it whenever I can get away with it. It is still considered informal, like ihr/euch in German;...

Doing the alveolar trill clearly and consistently is darn hard, I keep on doing the alveolar flap instead, not good when I'm trying to speak Spanish, where the two are seperate phonemes! I also have trouble doing a good flapped R after T.