From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 23 14:46:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA17007 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:46:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA16952 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 14:46:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA01296; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 23:45:48 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA20146; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 23:45:47 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id WAA25023; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 22:32:47 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603232132.WAA25023@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 22:32:47 +0100 (MET) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Narvi" at Mar 23, 96 02:13:34 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)