Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 22:32:47 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT Message-ID: <199603232132.WAA25023@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960323140710.20093A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> from "Narvi" at Mar 23, 96 02:13:34 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. 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.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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