Date: Mon, 25 Mar 96 11:32:24 MET From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT Message-ID: <199603251035.LAA01747@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960323222810.20691A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>; from "Narvi" at Mar 23, 96 11:39 pm
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> 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
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