Re: CHAT: Being taken for a furriner ...
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 1, 2004, 12:23 |
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On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 21:19:18 +1200, Wesley Parish
<wes.parish@...> wrote:
> Articles with proper names/nouns? I always thought that was a Iberian feature
> - O Brazil, El Cucaracha, etc.
It's mandatory in modern Greek - "I'm the Philip". And even "I believe
in the God".
> > >He used articles with proper names, which I find
> > >awesomely cool, if a bit comical. I'd use them myself,
> > >if I felt brave enough.
> >
> > In German, that is? It's considered to be a southern regionalism, and
> > maybe northern speakers consider it to be vulgar.
I think more quaint than vulgar.
It's even occasionally used in the north - e.g. I might say "Hast du
die Karin schon gesehen?" or "Sag das mal dem Bernd" - though probably
not as frequently as in the south.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>