Re: Latin a loglang? (was Re: Unambiguous languages (was: EU allumettes))
From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, May 12, 2004, 21:51 |
Hi!
Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> writes:
> Besides, what's the problem? Russian, e.g., has just as 'complicated
> grammar' as Latin, but no one denies that it's a modern language and books
> teaching Russian don't feel compelled to present it as an "algebraic
> puzzle".
Hihi. I once personally felt Russian like being 'Latin grammar, but
you want to speak it'. Declension is even quite similar to Latin, I
felt.
And then I saw Icelandic, and it was about the same, just
different. :-) ('more' German like grammar, but more complex
morphology).
> Try reading literary German!!
What? That bad? Hmm...
**Henrik
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