[etni] Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: re: final s test
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- Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 10:01:19 +0300
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From: Laura Shashua <lasha205@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: final s test
Hot news from Germany :
Am here with a group of exchange pupils from my school and no one is
using the third person s. Not my kids, not the Germans, not the Dutch
and not anyone in between. It must be an international
conspir-ess-y...
Laura
Ilana wrote:
> Y'know... I don't think 3rd person 's' is going away any time soon.
> Look at French, for comparison. There you have s as a plural - "le
> livre" and "les livres". And you also have 2nd person singular: tu
> parles (vs. je parle and il parle)... It's not going away!!
> And the French don't even PRONOUNCE that 's' (in both plural and 2nd
> person singular). So don't get your hopes up...
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