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Conlangery #57: Animacy and Agency

Conlangery Podcast

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Is the Saxon Possessive a Saxon?

In general, people do not spontaneously produce sentences or phrases like that for the most part. It's exactly these sorts of mistakes that foreign speakers of English make that sort of can characterize the language. And we have, it's always fun in the not-vee speaking community in that some people become very upset when they don't get very strict rules from on high. There are a number of grammatical constructions where a farmer says, okay, well, this one's the most common and this one you can use about half the time but this one's really kind of weird.

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