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From: hinsenk@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Hinsen Konrad)
Subject: Re: One point against Esperanto
In-Reply-To: djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu's message of 14 Mar 1995 20:52:38 GMT
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In article <DJOHNSON.95Mar14125238@tartarus.ucsd.edu> djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) writes:

   > > Do Eurolang adjectives have a plural?  
   > 
   > No.

   This is a good thing too.

I am beginning to wonder why some people seem to think plural markers
are essential on nouns, but bad on adjectives. There are many languages
that have plural markers on both, and some that have none at all.
But the only language I know that has this funny mixture is English.
So why insist on it?

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