Date: Mon, 25 Mar 96 11:22:17 MET From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, asami@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT Message-ID: <199603251025.LAA01163@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <199603232132.WAA25023@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from "J Wunsch" at Mar 23, 96 10:32 pm
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> As Narvi wrote: > >> And there really aren't that many >> special cases (I haven't yet found out how you make sure from which >> gender a given word is other than learning by heart). Perhaps you should >> consider hard languages in which there are 14 or more cases. > > Well, languages with many different grammatical cases usually replace > prepositions by cases. In fact, within the Indo-European languages, it's the other way round: older languages, such as Latin and Greek, use endings to indicate case, person, number and tense. Newer languages, such as English, replace them with prepositions. > This is actually not much harder to learn than learning the correct > usage of the prepositions. (I don't know about Hungarian that > doesn't have prepositions, but i know it from Slavic languages.) Precisely. Greg
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