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From: brg@netcom.com (Bruce R. Gilson)
Subject: Re: Judging Esperanto
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In article <5hqrl4$jgo@vidar.diku.dk>,
Klaus Ole Kristiansen <klaus@diku.dk> wrote:
>brg@netcom.com (Bruce R. Gilson) writes:

>>The first case is talking about using an adjective as a noun, and I am sure
>>E-o allows this exact thing. Cannot one, in E-o, replace -a by -o to make an
>>adjective into a noun?

>>The second case is, truly, specific to Novial, and it is clear that it is
>>used to make it unnecessary to repeat the word over and over:

>>hir es du roses, li blanki es plu bel kam li redi

>>is short for:

>>hir es du roses, li blanki rose es plu bel kam li redi rose.

>What do you mean specific?  Doesn't many languages do this?  Mine
>certainly does.  English would use the dummy noun "ones", of course.

Specific to Novial, as opposed to Esperanto. Yes, in German, for example,
this is a common construction.


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