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- From: jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy)
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Re: Subject and object confusion (Was: Re: "n'ha"...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.231103.11675@trl.oz.au>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 23:11:03 GMT
- References: <1993Jan23.165501.23376@atc.boeing.com>,<1993Jan25.165630.23251@atc.boeing.com> <1993Jan26.213124.13236@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- st891487@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Schwartzberg, Queen of Spades) writes:
-
- >I'd like to thank the person who posted the explanation of n'ha as a
- >fictional construct by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It doesn't matter anymore,
- >but I think it's important for all bigshot linguists out there to tip
- >their hats to the Real Answer before getting sidetracked. While this is
- >really interesting, I am rolling on floor laughing at all those who
- >had such a wonderfully serious debate about it. I didn't remember the
- >answer either. Now say "thank you for unconfusing us" and go on to
- >the other discussion, which looks to me like a desperate attempt to
- >cover for the fact that nobody caught on. Next thing someone will ask
- >about Klingon. Please, please, please someone admit they felt just a wee
- >bit silly about the whole thing. It was a good question.
-
- If you had read this thread from the beginning, you would know that
- the original poster of the question about "n'ha" had mentioned everything
- about Marion Zimmer Bradley and her sources in her (I seem to remember
- the poster was a female) first posting. She had asked about the possible
- source of Bradley's fabrication and had suggested that it seemed Celtic.
-