
Conlangery #58: Practicum — Things you can do with the Middle Voice
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What's the Anti-Passive?
When you say like I eat it means you understand it means you eat something but if you say I wash it means you're I bathe it means you bathe yourself. It seems almost like dog bites is like a demoting of the object because it's not really important. And you need something else. So another anti that the middle can do is an anti-positive. Mm-hmm. Which is a confusing name. The classic example is always the window broke, which I mentioned earlier in Spanish. Right. That definitely occurs in Spanish butThe coffee rude. All of you have the chicken marinated. Yes.
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