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Old 12-26-2024, 05:57 PM   #3327
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Originally Posted by j.p.s View Post
That would be good, but does any other language have the equivalant of "Yeah, right."?

What English really needs is the ability unamibguously state something like "Then he hit him." following a sentence mentioning two people. I know Latin can, and assume other languages can as well..
YES! This would dramatically reduce ambiguity. Hindi achieves that in a slightly roundabout way by its reflexive pronoun - if "he" hit "himself", the sentence would have to say "himself, effectively. If it didn't, then it means person b hit person c
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