Re: Welcome to vaksje (was: Re: New Survey: CelticConlangs (andother lunatic pursuits))

At 02:05 PM 1/22/2003 -0600, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Tristan wrote:
> > In it's context, it was discussing Dutch, were, I understand based on
> > the thread, there are different articles (_het_ and _de_) for nouns of
> > different genders, so you'd have to know the gender before you could use
> > the article
>
>Actually, that's something I've wondered about.  Do speakers of
>languages with genders not use the article until they're sure of the
>word?  I.e., would a Spanish-speaker never say "Consígueme el ... ¿qué
>es la palabra? ..."?  (I hope I got that right, my Spanish is a bit
>rusty)
Usually a speaker already knows which words to know in advance, but at the
rare occassion that this is not so: I often forget to stop before the
article and thus automatically pick on one of the possible articles. Only
then it occurs to me, I don't even know which word. In Dutch as I said, I
often switched to an English word instead. This makes even less sense,
since English words don't even have gender. ;)

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