Re: Ethnologue

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Landau" <Neurotico@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: Ethnologue
>
> On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:05:28 +0100, Christophe Grandsire <
> christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR> parisen:
> >En réponse à Jean-François Colson <bn130627@...>:
> >
> >>
> >> Esperanto has a genitive indeed, but only for 5 words:
> >> - ies, genitive of iu;
> >> - kies, genitive of kiu;
> >> - ties, genitive of tiu;
> >> - cies, genitive of ciu;
> >> - nenies, genitive of neniu.
> >>
> >
> >True, but is it worth mentioning that Esperanto has a genitive for only
five
> >words? :))
> >
> >> Err... Isn't "Zamenhofa" the genitive of "Zamenhof"?
> >
> >As much as "Parisian" is the genitive of "Paris". -a marks adjectives.
> >So "Zamenhofa" is an adjective derived from the noun "Zamenhof" (you can
> >translate it as "Zamenhofian". Some languages do have an adjectival form
> >instead of a genitive, but in the case of Esperanto the two things have a
> >slightly different meaning.
>
>  Uhh . . . how about THESE genitives?
>
>  mia . . . genitive of mi
>  via . . . genitive of vi
>  lia . . . genitive of li
>  sxia . . . genitive of sxi
>  gxia . . . genitive of gxi
>  nia . . . genitive of ni
>  ilia . . . genitive of ili
>  sia . . . genitive of si
>  cia . . . genitive of ci
onia . . . genitive of oni

And don't forget the "neologismic" ria, jxia, sxlia, etc. . . . genitives of
ri, jxi, sxli, etc. ;-)

How many times would I forget to use smileys?

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Jean-François Colson
jfcolson (a) belgacom.net