Re: Devanagari handwriting?

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 23:23:53 +0200, Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote:

>Pascal A. Kramm wrote:
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>> They just bear it, same as with amny other over-complicated thing in
>> Sanskrit not found in most other languages (e.g. dual case).
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>Hmm. You meant dual number, didn't you? It's not as rare as you may think.
>It was present in Old Russian (its remnants are still found in all East
>Slavic lgs as a "counting form", to be used with numerals 2, 3 and 4 in
>Nom. and Acc.), Old English (in personal pronouns), florishes in Hebrew
>and Arabic etc.
There's also a relict of the former presence of a dual in German: The
Bavarian dialect pronoun for the second person plural isn't based on the
plural of old, but of the dual of old: they say "enk", not "ihr".

gry@s:
j. 'mach' wust

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