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Re: Arabic article (was: Corpses)

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Thursday, November 13, 2003, 17:20
BP Jonsson wrote:
> Indeed I find it equally odd that speakers > of French creoles haven't found out that > the la-/li-/l- at the beginning of most > of their nouns is actually redundant, unless > they feel it as a part-of-speech marker. >
I had a Filipino friend (of upper-class background) who once claimed to speak Visayan. I asked for a few words, and got things like "ang lamesa" for 'table'. Later, people who actually _knew_ Visayan told me such forms were strictly for ordering servants around.........