Re: A new translation exercise (was: lexicons)

[Padraic Brown <pbrown@POLARIS.UMUC.EDU>]

On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:

> [she went] by foot [foot is a noun that agrees with its posessor in
> gender]

Now that's a pretty neat feature!  And, in a very basic way, makes perfect
sense; as she couldn't very well have a masculine foot.  Unless it were
translplanted ...

Do other body parts agree like this as well?  I can't imagine that only
feet would do so.

Padraic.

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