...what happened to Pages?

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Futamaru

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My job is clean/polish this airplane when it gets dirty. It's almost all polished metal.

I also do menial mechanic stuff.

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Who's plane is that?
 

Futamaru

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My sworn brother once said that he wanted to watch it. But he doesn't know Japanese.
 

megumi

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WARNING WARNING
Take this sentence:

The pencils is kissing the elephant.

You can look at it in three ways:
1) Word order (like English)
2) Verb-subject agreement (like the Latin languages)
3) Animacy (like in Chinese)

So a native English speaker would probably say that the pencils are the ones doing the kissing on the elephants.

A native Latin speaker (lawl) would look at it and say that the elephant is doing the kissing since elephant is singular; thus matching with the "is"

A native Chinese speaker would look at it as the elephant is animate, so it's the one that would be doing the kissing. Pencils can't.
@_@ Woaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh. Now I'm really confused.
 
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