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Conlangery #103: Mailbag 2

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The Difference Between Give and Donate in a Poly Personal Agreement System

The verb for grant, which has sort of an exalted sound right somebody powerful is giving you something for that one. Give has multiple constructions available in English. You can't say I donated him a book. That just doesn't sound right to me. Can you say I granted a book to him? I granted a I granted permission to him. Which one sounds better to me? Okay. George, does that work for you in your version of English? It seems marginal, but I think I could do it. But obviously, there are these differences. Yeah.

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