-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Jun 2007, at 12:12, Joop Eggen wrote:
> In fact, for an artificial language one could decide the affair > democratically by statistics: which languages use infinitive, which > imperative. Well, you could have done, maybe 120 years ago, when Esperanto was still on the drawing board. After so many years of use and maturing, though, I don't think the rules and patterns of other languages have any more relevance to Esperanto than they do to any other language. Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFGZddE4qQfaYPSZYwRAjEkAKCYAiRfVkgIkrQoi2A90bGRaI4QzACeOBTB S1crIGRFYM5BiI5rK+b5DhM= =Wo6a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Wrong usage of infitive case instead of imperative case in verbs - almost everywhere! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66223 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs