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From: llfe@hound.UUCP (L.FENG)
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Subject: Re: Natural Language Deficiencies in Hopi.
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Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 17:01:33 EDT
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Gee, Chinese has very few, if any past and future tense
forms of verbs, and I never considered it deficient.

Would you consider defining "deficient" in something
other than a reference to English?  Perhaps English is
deficient?  I always did consider having to conjucate
verbs a deficiency! :-)
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