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From: brg@netcom.com (Bruce R. Gilson)
Subject: Re: Judging Esperanto
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In article <NEWTNews.859412545.29017.h0444wow@h0444wow.rz.hu-berlin.de>,
sebastiano hartviga  <h0444wow@rz.hu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
><brg@netcom.com> napisa:
>
>> Adjectives do not end in -a, -e, -o, or -um. Nouns do. Your knowledge of
>> Novial is far poorer than mine of E-o.
>
>o. jespersen:
>"Werden Adjektiva als Oberglieder gebraucht, so haben wir die schon 
>behandelten Endungen _-e_, _-o_, _-a_ fuer Personen und _-um_ fuer das 
>Neutrum. Wenn das Adjektiv alleinstehend mit Beziehung auf ein gerade 
>erwaehntes Substantiv ("anaphorisch") gebraucht wird, so bleibt die Endung 
>_-i_ und man kann einen Plural auf _-is_ bilden: _hir es du roses, li blanki 
>es plu bel kam li redi_ die weisse ... die rote; _hir es multi roses; ob vu 
>prefera li blankis o li redis? Inter lon libres es multis in anglum e kelkis 
>in latinum, ma lo lekte nur li anglis_."

When adjectives are made into primaries, we have the endings already consi-
dered, for persons _-e_, _-o_, _-a_, and for neuter _-um_. If the adjective
is used by itself with reference to a substantive just mentioned ("anaphor-
ically") the ending _-i_ is retained, and a plural may be formed in _-is_:...

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.


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