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From: donh@netcom.com (Don HARLOW)
Subject: Re: One point against Esperanto
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jirib@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Jiri Baum) skribis en lastatempa afisxo <3kikkm$g3q@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>:
>Darin Johnson (djohnson@arnold.ucsd.edu) wrote:
>...
>> > 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?
>
>English!
>
>Yes it does have accusative (on about six words: I, he, she, we, they;
><optional> who; <archaic> thou).
>
>No it does not have others.
>
Tamen, genitivo (cxe substantivoj) en 's, s'.

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