Re: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others)

Ray Brown wrote:

><soap-box>
>This is one reason that I, personally, do not like the idea of
>part-of-speech notation in an conIAL; it seems to me that one is forcing a
>particular speech pattern - essentially Latin-based - onto something I feel
>would be better with the flexibility of English & Chinese.
><end of soap-box>
Like to see you write that. This'd be utter blasphemy on a certain list
we're acquainted with ;) I'm personally not using part-of-speech markers in
my IALs anymore. I've seen quite well how languages can do without them.

Oskar
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