Re: CHAT: R: Re: CHAT: Yorkshire/Texas (was: dl)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 30, 2001, 8:51 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> BTW, it does the same with the Netherlands: Les Pays-Bas sont un royaume. Does
> English use plural or singular in this case? I think I remember singular...
Let's see ... "The Netherlands are a nice country" or "The Netherlands
is a nice country", yes, definitely singular.
Uatakassí would use the singular, but that's because it would be
agreeing with the name-prefix, ní, like "Ní ufbiitaníi satánki níf
amáilikaf klálki ..." Woah! Freaky co-incidence, that would be
abbreviated USA (if they used abbreviations like that, which they don't)
:-)
Ní uf- biitaní -i sa-tá -n -ki
Inhab.Place.Name G6Pl-inhab.place-pl be-one-they-NonPunct
ní -f amáilika-f klá-l -ki
Inhab.Place.Name-gen America -gen be -it-NonPunct
Lit. "The Places Which-are-one of America"
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