From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 25 02:36:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA12246 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 02:36:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from nixpbe.pdb.sni.de (mail.sni.de [192.109.2.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA12178 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 02:35:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nerv@localhost) by nixpbe.pdb.sni.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA01747 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 11:35:23 +0100 Message-Id: <199603251035.LAA01747@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 96 11:32:24 MET From: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: ; from "Narvi" at Mar 23, 96 11:39 pm X-Mailer: xmail 2.4 (based on ELM 2.2 PL16) Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > All the indo-european languages are so funny and silly - first they > divide the words into several (and totally unneeded) genders (after all, > what information does it give to you that the word Ma"dchen is neutrum?), > then they think up a whole lot of all kinds of articles, prepositions and > other nonsense. > sng. plu. > ---------------------------------------------------------- > 1.the head pea pead > 2.the head's pea peade > (etc) Interesting. Are you going to tell us what language it is? Magyar? > There is a place up there where the discription isn't clear (at least > as I watch it myself, for others there might also be others), namely the > 8th, but I can't help it. > > We use the 8th in sentences like: > 1) The man has a gun > 2) The mouse has buttons > 3) The cat feels sick > (all three word sentences) Without articles, they're three word sentences in English, too. > As for the spelling... With the exception of couple of words, they all > are written just as you pronunce them (so leaf would be liif, cow > would be kau and so on) + words where there are only two consonants > written but pronunced are three + everything written is always pronounce > (you write kn in the beginning of the word, you pronounce it so, not as > in know). This applies to most languages. Greg