Re: no verb French

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 07/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:03:59 GMT

John A. Rea wrote:
>
> 1) I would have translated the title, "The train FROM nowhere"
>
> 2) From the sample, it could be one of the many languages which
> seem to survive without the present of the verb equivalent of "be".
> Russian is close to this; check the King James version of the
> Bible and you'll find they put forms of this verb in italics,
> meaning they were inserted by the translators. No problem.
>
> Jack
>
> p.s. I'm top posting this because I wanted to.

But if you'd placed your comments directly below what they related to,
and removed all the rest of the article, we'd be able to tell what
you're referring to. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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