Rant from lunch

[firstfrost]

Okay, whose fault is this? What were they thinking? It's like an Easter egg or something....

I hit	him	with the ball	I hit	her	with the ball
I took	his	ball	I took	her	ball
The ball is	his		The ball is	hers

Comments

Re: Could I have a side of context with that rant, please?

[twe.livejournal.com]

The thing that it makes me wonder is whether there are actually more distinct parts of speech than three

Noun/pronoun cases in English often all have the same form and usualky have far fewer forms than cases. Ditto for verb tenses. Latin has piles of them. :)