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Subject: Re: Which language is easier to learn?
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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 14:53:27 GMT
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Piorokrat wrote:
>Uzytkownik "Jacques Guy" <jguy@alphalink.com.au> napisal w wiadomosci
>news:3F2116A5.3FB7@alphalink.com.au...
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>>hs wrote:
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>>>And also danger of confusion - words differing by one letter only are
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>much
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>>>easier confused. The prefix "s-" in Italian gave me quite some problems
>>>("conosciuto" and "sconosciuto" should *better* not be confused, for
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>their
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>>>menings are opposites...)
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>>Exactly right. There is even worse: "can" and "can't" in some varieties
>>of American English.
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>>This is a reason why I think that Indonesian is difficult: many words
>>differ by only one letter. Binatang "insect", bintang "star", merah
>>"red", marah "angry", and so on.
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>>Also compare the declensions of German and of Russian. Russian has
>>long suffixes: you just cannot mistake one case for another. German...
>>well, from your name, I guess you know the language!
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>But if I say 'dyevushke', how do you know whether that's dative or locative?
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>Am I giving 'to the girl'? Or am I 'in the girl'? Or does the expectation of
>the second notion determine the fact of the first?
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It can only be dative if there is no preposition. :-)
Cellus P.
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