Linguistic oddities / OT

[Aberforth's Goat]

No: HPFGUIDX 892

>
> The difference between nouns and verbs is an arbitrary artifact of
> Indo-European languages. It doesn't exist as such in Semitic
> languages, and in fact it is a little weak in English: is 'wave' a
> noun or a verb? How about 'smile'? How about 'interface'?

Come again?  I only know classical Hebrew & Aramaic.  (Or put honestly, I've
only forgotten classical Hebrew & Aramaic... )  But I have very vivid
memories of learning to do very weird things with both verbs and nouns.  Or
has my memory so badly deteriorated that I'm remembering things I never
learned?

Could it be that goats turn senile at 28 ... ?

Oink! Oink!

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