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Re: I believe the term here is "Pshaw".
Posted By: Gabe, on host 66.185.70.134
Date: Friday, November 29, 2002, at 18:10:26
In Reply To: Re: I believe the term here is "Pshaw". posted by Eric Sleator on Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 21:21:19:

> > Even better, we never have to change our
> > articles depending on the gender of the noun.
>
> Or even worse: our adjectives. I'm taking German, and while I find it to be generally easy once you pick it up, the adjectives are death. They decline not only based on gender but on case as well, and as if that weren't enough it's also different depending on if there's a definite article in front of it or an indefinite article or a possessive pronoun or a preposition or whatever. It's absolutely insane.

Oh yes. I'm taking a Koine Greek class, wherein we are taught to despise participles. Each of these has all the conjugations of verbs and all the declensions of adjectives rolled up into a compact, hateful little bundle. "Wait, is this a second aorist passive participle dative singular feminine of the first declension or a middle imperfect participle nominative/accusative plural neuter of the third declension corresponding to a singular subject?"

>>> Japanese is easier than English! It's such a logical language!
>>I initially thought your post was a joke, but the second half seemed serious. Japense is *not* logical.

Thrice Hurrah for Lojban, which is good to study in my spare time as a relief from Greek. The equivalent of participles are formed with the prefix "be" and terminated with "be'o" if necessary. There are no exception to this rule, and virtually no exceptions to any of the other rules.


Link: roko facki ledu'u la lojban. frili

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