Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 12:58:58 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, asami@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960324123822.21822A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199603232132.WAA25023@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, J Wunsch 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. 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.) All Ugric and Finno-Ugric languages (languages of the people who started out near the Urals and moved to several different places in the Eurasia) do it that way. The way words are used is different from that of Indo-European languages - in stead of a complex system of preposition + sometimes also case system to acompany you just have the cases (and as there are no articles you just change the word). Sander > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > Eat good food, preserve nature, be nice to all nice people :)
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