Re: CHAT Stambul (was: A new version of Genesis)

At 06:50 6/15/2004, Nik Taylor wrote:

>I don't question the "City" part of the story, I question the
>preposition "in".  I could easily see "The City" becoming analyzed as a
>name, but the incorporation of a preposition seems a bit far-fetched to
>me.
It happened because the Turks adopted the whole phrase as a word
without analysing it, since most of them didn't bother to learn
Greek.  'Tis especially easy since the 'in' in Modern Greek is
just an /s/ put at the beginning of the definite article:
_stin polin_.

/BP 8^)
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