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| | Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style C |
 | | In other words, in some languages nouns assume different forms depending on whether they're the subject of a clause, the |
 | | As you get further from the Indo-European languages, you get ever more exotic cases: the Kalaallisut language of Greenland, for instance, has ten cases, absolutive, ergative, equative, instrumental, locative, allative, ablative, perlative, nominative, and accusative. |
 | | They're prefab strips of language, hastily tacked together, and they do you no good. |
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