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TIL a minority of the world's languages are "ergative"—the object of a transitive verb & the subject of an intransitive verb are treated the same. For example: whereas in English we'd say "SHE likes HER" & "SHE walks"; in Basque (spoken in N. Spain/SW France), it'd be "SHE likes HER" but "HER walks"

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