tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 27 06:42:15 1997

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Re: No indefinite articles



In a message dated 97-11-26 01:08:18 EST, Qov writes:

<< 
 Languages *can* get along just fine without articles.  Hundreds of 
 millions of people speaking Russian, Polish and other Slavic 
 languages aren't suffering for the lack of "a" and "the." >>

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ghojmeH ngeDqu' *China* Hol
"articles, plurals, prepositions, postpositions, tenses, parts of speech"
rarbogh mIw Hutlh *China* Hol
*China* Hol ghojtaHvIS vay' jav qechmeyvam qelnISbe'
'ach lujatlhlaH wa' SanID 'uy' nuvpu' 'ej yajchuq

ghajmo' *Spanish* Hol, Qatlh

Chinese is actually easy to learn to speak.  It has no articles, no plurals,
no prepositions, no postpositions, no tenses, no set rules on combining only
certain parts of speech.  That's six things one need not be concerned with
when studying Chinese.  Yet, it is spoken by over a billion people with no
problems in understanding.

That's what makes Spanish so hard.

Qapla'    peHruS


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