Re: Latin (was Language universal?)

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:


> There's a locative [in Latin]?  Gee, I'll look forward to finding out about it.
It's really, really vestigial: in the Classical language, basically
an oddball use of genitive, ablative, or dative case endings
for the names of cities and small islands, plus half a dozen common
nouns.
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A terse but nearly complete summary can be found at
http://webpages.ursinus.edu/classics/Latin/grammar_locative.htm ,
which however omits urbe (in the city) and rure (in the country).


> (I have no idea how to mark macrons with ASCII)
Do as the Romans did: leave them out.
("When in Rome, shoot off Roman candles.")

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