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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 11:26:10 -0700
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- From: "Bryce Carey, CNS,
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- Subject: Re: _Voyage to the Island_ by R.R.N. (a Finnish Subject Verb
- Object book?)
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- From: Carey_b@cubldr.colorado.edu
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- Someone (no signature line) wrote:
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- >Finnish isn't any Subject Verb Object Language, but English lacks the
- >necessary casuses. I know, since my mother tongue is Sami, a near relative
- >to Finnish.
- >
- >So it's better to blame the translator, maybe.
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- Excuse me, but what is a 'casuses' it's certainly not in my
- English dictionary. The closest is:
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- Casuist, one given to casuistry... casuistry: sophistical equivocation.
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- Surely this is not what you mean? English rhetoric is FULL of it!
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- Perhaps you mean Finnish is an inflected language?
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- -Bryce
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