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From: rharmsen@knoware.nl (Ruud Harmsen)
Subject: Re: Single European Language
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In article <3s1ms3$l1d@agate.berkeley.edu> coby@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Coby (Jacob) Lubliner) writes:
>Natural languages rarely suffer from such rigidity.  In Italian, all
>"native" nouns end in vowels, but this fact doesn't prevent the
>adoption, without modification, of consonant-ending words such as
>_lapis_.  In Turkish, borrowed words don't have to observe vowel
>harmony.
OTOH, some Slavic language do decline foreign names, like Clintona or 
something similar.
Sounds very remarkable, to say the least, to my ears.
