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Re: "A" Personal in Spanish (was - Redundant pronouns, Tagalog, etc.)

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 17, 1999, 0:19
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:05:23 +0200 vardi <vardi@...> writes:
>> I don't know that much about Arabic, but could the _a personal_ in >> Spanish be some kind of incomplete influence from Semitic languages? >> Hebrew has a direct object marker, _et_, so i'd assume Arabic has >one >> too...and i don't see why the Arabic influence on Spanish would be >> limited to just all those vocabulary words which begin with "al" :) >> -Stephen (Steg)
>Arabic doesn't have an equivalent of the "et" marker (had he known >this, >maybe Ben Gurion would have been a bit more pro-Arab - he hated "et" >and >advocated its virtual elimination from Hebrew, as Steg may well be >aware).
Actually, i didn't know that....why did he want that? I love "et"....and less subjectively, it would mess up the entire structure of the language to take it out! -Stephen (Steg) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]