cgboeree | Re: [LFN] nova parolas
Alo, Antonio.
Me comentas es a su...
Antonio Fonseca wrote:
>Rio, 24/08/04
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>Alo Jorj,
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>>and we can use fial: un jornal fial -- a children's magazine
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>Me ia es pensante ce la caso "genitivo" no ta esiste en LFN.
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Coreta. *Un jornal fial* es "a magazine concerning children." "A
magazine for children" ta es *un jornal de fias*. En linguas roman,
"de" es usada per plu ce la jenetivo, e la mesma es vera per LFN.
>Me ia es pensante que "woman's paper", ta es "jonal de femas". La plural e
>la forma nondefinida de fema,
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Of course, *jornal de femas* could also mean "the magazine of a bunch of
women!"
> ta mostra ce la jornal no es de un fema ma de
>tota la femas.
>La mesma per la tuta eser vivente. "la caseta de la can" per un can e
>"la casa de canes" para una loca que reseta e atende a canes.
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>La sufice "al" ta es usada per cosas relatada a o envolveda per; como
>nasional= relatada to nasion o entra la nasion.
>pasional= relatada a pasion o envolveda per la pasion, etc.
>Per me esa nos es vere un caso "genitivo".
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I understand the genitive to mean possession, specifically. But yes:
Post office, for example, can be *ofisia postal* or *ofisia de posta*.
The -al suffix was retained (like the -in and -os suffixes) for
convenience, especially in more technical and "official" speech and
writing. I actually prefer not using them! But this is why I don't
like it so much when we start using *femal* for female, rather than for
*de femas*.
Jorj