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From: hinsenk@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Hinsen Konrad)
Subject: Re: One point against Esperanto
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In article <DJOHNSON.95Mar17192800@arnold.ucsd.edu> djohnson@arnold.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) writes:

   > and as for me the accusative is one of the greatest gifts that zamenhof
   > gave esperanto speakers.

   Really?  It always seemed a bit of a rough spot to me.  How many
   other languages use the accusative case, and if they do don't they
   also have lots of other noun cases to go along?

Most European languages have at least some case forms. English, for example,
has accusative forms for some pronouns (me, him, her, us, them). Dutch and
most (perhaps all?) Romance languages are similar. German and all Slavonic
languages except Bulgarian have case forms for most adjectives and nouns.

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