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Interesting. This discussion of such an anti-leverage point(?) of a language reminds me of Japanese, and not having plurals as first-class citizens :-)
by themodelplumber 8y ago
Interesting. This discussion of such an anti-leverage point(?) of a language reminds me of Japanese, and not having plurals as first-class citizens :-)
- escherplex 8y agoAnd not just plurals. Juxtapose the relatively sophisticated time sense expressable in English verb forms with the Japanese imperfective and perfective verb forms. With the imperfective form and without further cues you're expected to telepathically intuit whether the referrent is present or future.