Re: North Wind & Sun in Modern Jovian

From: Christian Thalmann (cinga@gmx.net)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 01:29:08 EST


--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, Jan van Steenbergen
<ijzeren_jan@y...> wrote:

> > http://www.cinga.ch/langmaking/jovian_tnwats.txt
>
> Nice. But what exactly IS the Modern Jovian usage of articles? I
noticed that
> the title doesn't use articles, nor do many other places where one
would expect
> them.

Vindu Boeraele and Sole are personified and thus treated as
proper names. That wouldn't preclude the use of articles per
se, but since they always occur in the nominative, they're
not required.

Apart from that, I think the usage is pretty consistent. Or
do you have any other places in mind?

-- Christian Thalmann



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