Re: Definite article + posessive pronoun

On 23 Aug 02, at 16:04, Barry Garcia wrote:

> Reading orbilat.com, i found out that the other Romance languages
> *except* Spanish use the definite articles with the posessive
> pronouns, agreeing with the gender of the posessed noun.
So French stopped being Romance? (Or does "other" mean "those besides
French"?)

Mon p'tit chou, ma chérie...

(Incidentally, this behaviour -- which I noticed first in Italian --
gets in the way of my Esperanto, which tends to do the same: "la mia
komputilo", &c.)

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>