Re: Anthroponymy (was Re: Re: Laadan)

Zeswede Douglas Koller, Latin & French  <latinfrench@...> ta 2002.12.13. her 10:18:25 -5h:

> Mau írja:
*bows before a master of her beloved tongue*

> >Isaac A. Penzev írta:
> >
> As does Chinese. The reasoning I learned was that you always work
> from the largest element to the smallest. This includes dates which
> are year, month, day; addresses which are country (if sent from
> abroad), province, city or town, street, alley (if extant), house
> number, person;  and names which are surname, given name. All three
> languages work this way AFAIK, and coincidentally, all three have
> adjs. preceding their nouns, but I don't know what that means -- I
> never thought about it this way before.
I see. All three languages think like the East ( though Hungarian is somewhat between
the West and the East, regarding its way ), whose philosophy is to know the inside of things,
(here the names) while the typical european way of thinking is to touch the surface and
see how it can serve his own purposes and wishes. This is not bad but different.

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