From: Dan Jones (devobratus@myactiveware.com)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 11:59:54 EST
Adam Walker wrote:
>Does the ser/estar distinction exist in Romlangs beyond Iberia? Spanish
>has them. Portuguese does. So does Catalan, but the others don't do that,
>right? I don't think I want a similar distinction in C-a.
Only Italian, AFAIK- essere and stare.
>What about the por/para distinction. How wide spread is that? I'm
>concidering a three way distinction on "for" -- peru/peu/para(or worse
>pera). I don't know why I'd do this to myself since por and para already
>drive me to distraction in Spanish, but I *am* concidering it. Maybe it's
>the cold medicine.
"por" and "para" are unique to Iberia. They're from Latin "per" and "per
ad" (IIRC).
Dan
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