Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 15:35:35 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, asami@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960325152938.24377B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199603251025.LAA01163@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de>
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Eat good food, preserve nature, be nice to all nice people :) On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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. > > In fact, within the Indo-European languages, it's the other way round: > older languages, such as Latin and Greek, use endings to indicate > case, person, number and tense. Newer languages, such as English, > replace them with prepositions. > Newer? Older? In real old Sanskrit and friends it wasn't so. But that isn't the thing that makes the grammars similar/different. It's not easier for me to learn Latin or Greek than any modern language as the "similarity might suggest. > > 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.) How comes the slavic languages don't have prepositions? At least in Russian there are. > > Precisely. > Greg > Sander
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