CHAT: "nur" [was Re: CHAT: Hrushevs'kyj]
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 26, 2002, 18:37 |
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Quoting "Isaac A. Penzev" <isaacp@...>:
> > Does the above make me a Ukrainian nationalist? I don't think so,
> > especially since I'm not even a Ukrainian.
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> Neither am I (in BOTH cases): mi ne estas "ukraino", mi estas nur
> "ukrainiano", as it may be said in Esperanto.
Your comment in Esperanto reminds me of a distinction made
in German that English does not make, namely, that a sentence
like "Ich bin nur Student" implies a kind of self-deprecation
generally absent from the English "I'm only an undergrad [right
now, but I'll going to graduate school soon]". Does Esperanto
have this kind of distinction, and what about other languages?
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Thomas Wier
Dept. of Linguistics "Nihil magis praestandum est quam ne pecorum ritu
University of Chicago sequamur antecedentium gregem, pergentes non qua
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