Re: Poetic translation (was: ULT)
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 31, 1999, 2:22 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> Tom Wier scripsit:
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> > Wouldn't that be: "Mi farcas in vian direkcionon generalan"?
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> E-o prepositions govern the nominative.
IIRC, this is one of those classic exceptions to the rules. When you
mean "into", which is what that would be here (by default; you can have
either directionality or location, and this would have to be directionality),
you use the accusative, much as in Latin, German, etc.
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