Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hound!llfe From: llfe@hound.UUCP (L.FENG) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Natural Language Deficiencies in Hopi. Message-ID: <695@hound.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 17:01:33 EDT Article-I.D.: hound.695 Posted: Thu Oct 25 17:01:33 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Oct-84 09:04:55 EDT References: <2479@rochester.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 9 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! :-) -- From the lunch hour of houxz!llf.