Re^2: The Germanic language form

Fascinating. My niece is a linguist with no programming bent but I'm going to point her at this anyway.

You're righ about prepositions in English. They really are what make it work. Latin, on the other hand, is so strongly flexed that it practically doesn't use articles. Between case, declension, mood etc. you always know which is which.

Is it true that Finnish is related more closely to Turkish than any other language?

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Re^3: The Germanic language form by blazar (Canon) on Jun 02, 2007 at 09:02 UTC
Latin, on the other hand, is so strongly flexed that it practically doesn't use articles. For completeness: `s/practically//;`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: The Germanic language form by girarde (Hermit) on Jun 04, 2007 at 20:31 UTC
I'm not really a Latinist, but I do recall a book titled "Winnie ille Pooh" by Milne. Anyway, I usually prefer to make weak assertions.	[reply]
Re^5: The Germanic language form by blazar (Canon) on Jun 04, 2007 at 22:07 UTC
I'm not really a Latinist, but I do recall a book titled "Winnie ille Pooh" by Milne. Neither am I, in fact I've almost completely forgotten it, notwithstanding the five years I studied it at school, and I was rather good at it, go figure! Anyway, there are no articles: what that you mention is "ille, illa, illud", an adjective and a pronoun akin to English' "that" but also having the acceptation of "that famous", "the very renown". Indeed I seem to remember (caution because in turn I'm not a linguist) that modern Italian (definite) articles, "il, lo, la, gli, le" are to some extent weak forms of those Latin words. By contrast Sardu, which is considered a language of its own rather than an Italian dialect, also has definite articles, but they're completely different and deriving from Latin "ipse, ipsa, ipsum".	[reply]
Re^3: The Germanic language form by jdporter (Paladin) on Jun 01, 2007 at 14:23 UTC
As if this thread weren't almost entirely off topic already.... You should be hesitant to ask an encyclopedia question.	[reply]
Re^4: The Germanic language form by girarde (Hermit) on Jun 01, 2007 at 14:46 UTC
A native probably has something more, and more amusing, to say than Wiki. Conceivably he could correct it. :-)	[reply]
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