Re: Lingua Eurana tradition

On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:44:32 +0200, "Klaus Dieckmann"
<klaus.dieckmann@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>
>"Paul Bartlett" wrote:
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>> However, why not consider what has been historically effective?  I
>> myself would find it far easier to have a definite article but not an
>> indefinite, rather than the other way around.
>
>An example:
>
>esperanto: La hundo estas suba la tablo. (The dog is beneath the table)
>eurana:     Cynu e suba tablu.
>
>If I write *"La cynu e suba la tablu", the sentence has a different
meaning: 
>His / her dog is beneath his / her table.
>
>The particle "la" has the function of a possessive pronoun in Eurana .
>
>I cannot use this often found "la" as an article in my language.

Interesting. For languages (like Latin) that have no articles, it's
not a problem (though it clearly became a problem as the centuries
passed!) English speakers will forever be asking "is it *THE* dog or
*A* dog?"! That is a key distinction in many European langauges, and I
find it entirely annoying that I have no idea what dog you're talking
about! There might be a dozen dogs in the vicinity, and there's no way
to distinguish them in Eurana!

I like articles, and Kerno has its share. Definite, indefinite and
undefined (neither definite nor indefinite):

ne-sez il ky li mésse (under-sits the dog the table)
ne-sez yn ngy li mésse (a dog)
ne-sez ce ky li mésse (some dog)

Padraic

>Greetings
>
>Klaus 
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