Re: Be and Have in Arabic, English and German


Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Paul J Kriha wrote:
>
> > > > And the beest of all is to nake around on the beach in the slowly evening sun.
> > >
> > > Is the sun ever uneven? Why does it need to even [itself], at whatever
> > > speed?
> > > Peter T. Daniels
> >
> > :-)
> > I'm just looking out of the bay window of my living room and there
> > behind the vast expanse of the southern oceans the sun is getting
> > even with the horizon. Or something like that. Anyway, that's what
> > I claim I was thinking of.
> >
> > Or, could I have been thinking of "evening" as opposed to "morning". No. :-)
>
> Not with an adverb in front of it, you couldn't.

True. What a powerful adverb.

> Does your sun morn faster than it evens?

Dunno. It morns behind the hills, high beer needed for seeing isable.

I said "slowly" not to make any astronomical claim but only to utilize
powers of a poetic warrant.

pjk

P.S.
In fact it so happens that I am almost exactly the same distance from
the equator as NYC (I presume that's somewhere where you are),
i.e. at 41 degrees latitude.
The sun will therefore morn and even at a similar speed and time
taking account of (approximately) 6 month offset, of course.

> --
> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx


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