So he sent out an aide-de-camp to give the order to add the dog.
The six privates of the Present Tense now filed in, in charge of Sergeant AVERE (TO HAVE), and displaying their banner.

They formed in line of battle, and recited, one at a time, thus: "IO HO UN CANE, I have a dog." "TU HAI UN CANE, thou hast a dog." "EGLI HA UN CANE, he has a dog." "NOI ABBIAMO UN CANE, we have a dog." "VOI AVETE UN CANE, you have a dog." "EGLINO HANNO UN CANE, they have a dog." No comment followed.

They returned to camp, and I reflected a while.

The commander said: "I fear you are disappointed." "Yes," I said; "they are too monotonous, too singsong, to dead-and-alive; they have no expression, no elocution.

It isn't natural; it could never happen in real life.