From: Greg Morrow <dr.elmo at whiterose.org> >Jerry Friedman wondered aloud to the group: > >Hm. Are speakers of English lazier than speakers of Russian or, > >for that matter, Hungarian? (I think Hungarian has lots of noun > >inflections--but I've been wrong before.) > >The web site I found says it does; from some brief examples, it looks as >strongly cased as Latin, and it incorporates number and person into the >verb like Spanish. Which property Spanish of course inherits from Latin. (In Latin if you actually use a pronoun, it's to place emphasis on it.) -- David Goldfarb |"Everyone generalizes from insufficient data. goldfarb at ocf.berkeley.edu | I know I do." goldfarb at csua.berkeley.edu | -- Steven Brust