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Re: RE: be'

• From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: RE: be'
• Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 16:59:41 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
• In-Reply-To: <CBD6795F70A5D211B2B20008C733321A031CF8@INFINITI2>
• Priority: NORMAL

On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:00:39 -0800 (PST) "Andeen, Eric" 
<[email protected]> wrote:

...
> A <be''a'> would be someone who is "more" than a woman. What does that mean?
> Is she physically larger? Older? Somehow more "womanly"? No obvious meaning
> comes to mind. When I hear <be''a'> without any context, I would think of a
> woman who is somehow "great" - Madame Curie, Queen Elizabeth I, or Joan of
> Arc, perhaps.

Or perhaps yaSmIn?
 
> pagh
> Beginners' Grammarian

charghwI' 'utlh

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