Re[2]: [tied] Re: Got to thinkin' about word order

At 10:39:28 AM on Wednesday, May 7, 2003, Glen Gordon wrote:

> Torsten:
>>You can't run an empire without a dative.

> Piotr:
>>Really? I think the vocative and the imperative are what
>>one chiefly needs :-)

> You're ALL wrong! It's the nominative!

> Afterall, an empire would be nothing without its subjects
> ;)

But it needs a genitive if it's to have more of them!

Brian