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Conlangery #58: Practicum — Things you can do with the Middle Voice

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Is Animalacy Important in English?

English verbs are marked by what looks like just the regular, you know, I guess in trans or a transitive verb with no. It's very true because if you use something, for example, assuming that, um, well, I was going to use the example of prostitution, but you couldn't even say like she sells well because you mean that she sells something. The person who ever being sold. If you say like these puppies sell well, that sounds a little weird too. So we can we can give that. And then the last thing that you can have is your middle might be a true passive. Like I said in ancient Greek by using the correct oblique preposition,

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