[CrackMonkey] [Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>] [Pigdog] Re: "put minority languages on the map" (fwd)

[Seth David Schoen]

Seth David Schoen writes:

> Ancient Greek has three voices and three numbers (among other things),
> although the dual is called archaic (pre-classical).  This situation
> led to many British prep school students learning things like the
> present subjunctive first-person middle dual of "luo", no doubt so
> that, if two of them were ever captured by extremely ancient Greeks,
> they could sing a duet in which they discuss with their captors the
> possibility that they might ransom themselves.

Of course the duet in question will also include the word "eleutheria"
somewhere.

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