Re: cases

Nik wrote:

> "Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> > Calling the Romanian cases "nominative/accusative" and "genitive/dative"
> > is about like calling English's cases "nominative/vocative" and
> > "accusative/dative/ablative/instrumental/locative"
>
> I agree, but I didn't invent the terminology!  :-)  That's the
> terminology I've seen in every description of Romanian I've read.
Well, then.  A thoughtful linguist would change it.

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