Re: me and my languages

Actually that can happen in Hungarian:

A szobaban levo szek.
The room-in being chair.
"The chair that is in the room."

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On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Douglas Koller, Latin & French wrote:

> Marcus wrote:
>
> >Jesse Bangs wrote:
> >
> >>but I'll bet a
> >>fairly large sum of money that no natural language is like that.
> >
> >I might be willing to take that bet. Off the top of my head, I can think of
> >languages that can separate nouns and quantifiers, adjectives,
> >demonstratives, and other modifiers. The only thing that I cannot
> >immediately think of is a language that allows separation of a definite
> >article from its noun.
>
> I believe Ancient Greek allows the construction: "the on the river
> boat", "the in the room chair" etc. Don't know if it persists in
> Modern Greek.
>
> Kou
>