-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tarek Soliman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:27:30PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:04:56PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >>>> Since this is already a off-topic thread... >>>> >>>> So does Dutch, German, French, Italian....Now that I stop and think >>>> about it, I can't think of any that don't. >>>> >>> Well, English has the concept of a neuter article (the). >>> >>> the dog --> el perro >>> >>> That is what I was referring to. I am not sure I got the point across >>> properly. >>> >> my dog, your dog, her dog, his dog, its dog, our dog, their dog. That is >> all of the personal pronouns referring to possession of a dog. >> >> In Spanish you have one more. >> >> It is extremely impolite to refer to people as an it, so his or her are >> the only ones left. >> > It french and spanish and arabic there are masculine and feminine ... > nouns. > So saying "The" has 2 ways "TheShe" and "TheHe" > > Table is feminine in arabic for instance. So it is "TheShe Table" > > English is gender neutral for the most part. The cat is "it". The woman > is "she" > > French has 2 pairs of modifiers. One for male and one for female. > "le" and "la" > "un" and "une" > > I think spanish has "el" and "la" also. > > Arabic has the "el" also (sometimes written "al"). > There is no "la". A trailing "a" at the end makes things feminine (kinda) > > German is messed up. It has 3 pairs of modifiers. "Der" "Die" "Das" and > "Wer" "Wie" "Was". I have the capitalization wrong. German is one of > those languages where capitalization means stuff. Nouns are Capital in > german. Russian also has capitalization issues. > > My point is: I don't think you got what Roberto was saying. >
I got what he was saying. Let me give you an example: ME: I have a problem with my cat. He won't eat. Can you help? Roberto: In English you can say The. Spanish - El gato. = The cat. There is no relevance. Perhaps I should have just owned up to my mistake of calling a boy a girl and leave it at that. I already apologized. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF+PEViXBCVWpc5J4RAlT/AJ0VziRhSaktIEU4kwSDuJBOojx/KgCgh6U9 YuA/RN8ZO761OYFP8t2JYJs= =QMvM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
