Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Even Worse Than Scotches: IE Linguistics
From: henry <henry@henryambrose.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:12:53 -0500

Marc James Small wrote all this and more:
>Latin has the ablative absolute, Ancient Greek
>the genitive absolute, both apparently descended from a common IE form
>which, when the Greek genitive absorbed certain functions of the IE
>ablative case, wafted over to form the Greek genitive absolute. 

Marc,

This is a family list. There might be kids lurking about. 

Stop this dirty talk NOW!

Henry
what did he say?