From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 13 19:52:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4034837B409; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 19:52:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id BC7A881340; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 12:22:47 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 12:22:47 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: Tony Finch , Mikhail Teterin , bmah@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Ukraine (Re: Quotes from Dev Summit III) Message-ID: <20020614025247.GB32485@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200206131907.g5DJ71Q7011230@intruder.bmah.org> <200206131614.58052.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> <20020614003045.A8818@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <20020614023741.GA32485@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3D0957B4.ADB8A03F@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D0957B4.ADB8A03F@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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