Articles with propper names (was RE: Same name (was ...))
| From: | Carlos Eugenio Thompson (EDC) <edccet@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 25, 2000, 16:09 |
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> From: Irina Rempt [SMTP:ira@REMPT.XS4ALL.NL]
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> On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:
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> > Wouldn't he use the form used by the Elizabeth herself?
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> I like that, "the Elizabeth"! If Valdyan had any articles, I'd
> probably give proper names the definite article as well :-)
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Some dialect in Spanish, mainly in the Quechua influenced area: Chile,
Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador and Southern Colombia, use the definite article with
personal names. All dialects uses article (or posesive pronoun) with
titles.
-- Carlos Th