Re: Ethnologue

Jean-François Colson <bn130627@...> parisen:

>> 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
 Ah! So it DOES have an "onia" form. I was forgetting whether "oni" could 
inflect to "onia" like the other pronouns.

> And don't forget the "neologismic" ria, jxia, sxlia, etc. . . . genitives 
of
> ri, jxi, sxli, etc. =-)
 "Sxli" sounds like a cross between "sxi" and "li" . . . I suppose these are 
"s/he" type words?

> How many timxs would I forget to use smileys?
 Forget? Is there any time where it's definite that a smiley is SUPPOSED to 
be used? Sometimes I find people who use smileys where they don't seem to 
have any meaning.

 (One site even has a few of these posters who use the :grin: and :lol: 
smileys in seemingly every post, and some who waste an entire post just to 
write the :lol: smiley. This is one of these message boards that turns our 
emoticon text into those ugly graphics of faces instead of keeping the 
emoticons in the form of text.)