Re: [romanceconlang] Re: Trouble with Articles

From: Christophe Grandsire (christophe.grandsire@free.fr)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 18:54:19 EST


En réponse à Christian Thalmann :

>Right. Stupid me. ;-)

LOL.

>I think I'm just going to use the singular indefinite article
>for uncountables. Thus "the taste of wine" would become |is
>sappur nys uenun| [i 'sapp@r nyz 'y@n@]. The danger of
>misunderstanding is very low, methinks.

Indeed.

> If we were talking
>about a specific wine, we could use the definite article and
>treat the wine as countable (since specific brands or
>generations of wine are countable): |is sappur ys uenun|
>"the taste of the wine".

Looks OK to me :) .

> >
> > In Narbonósc, there is a partitive article of the form "ne/na" (which
> > exists only in the singular). It is derived from "em+e" and "em+a"
>(like
> > "du" is "de+le").
>
>Pretty cool.

Thanks! :)))

Christophe Grandsire.

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