Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 12:22:47 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>, bmah@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ukraine (Re: Quotes from Dev Summit III) Message-ID: <20020614025247.GB32485@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3D0957B4.ADB8A03F@mindspring.com> References: <200206131907.g5DJ71Q7011230@intruder.bmah.org> <200206131614.58052.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20020614003045.A8818@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <20020614023741.GA32485@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3D0957B4.ADB8A03F@mindspring.com>
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On Thursday, 13 June 2002 at 19:40:52 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> [Moved to -chat] >> On Friday, 14 June 2002 at 0:30:45 +0100, Tony Finch wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:14:58PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: >>>> >>>> The country is called Ukraine, not "the Ukraine". >>> >>> In Ukrainian or in English? >> >> Unless I'm very much mistaken, there's no word for "the" in Ukrainian. > > It's probably just a dictionary omission, like the word "gullible" > being left out of most printings of "Websters Disctionary". The lack of a definite article? No, that's nothing to do with dictionaries, it's to do with language. A (for Western European speakers) surprising number of languages have no definite article. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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