User talk:Sockul

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What is -ul supposed to mean man? :-) NikoSilver 00:11, 9 January 2007 (UTC)


 * -ul is a suffix used in the Black Speech (it's also a definite article in Romanian, and exists, but I don't know what it is, in Hungarian - these are both of secondary importance though). Sockul 18:09, 9 January 2007 (UTC)


 * He's trying to impersonate User:Bonaparte! Careful man, you might get blocked on sight! :) - Francis Tyers · 10:05, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

This is pretty funny about trying to use case systems from other languages where they don't exist. However that's an aside, can you tell me exactly what the Greek grammarians say about Bulgarian? Definitely the Genitive/Dative in Bulgarian uses a preposition (and thus would not qualify as a case), but I couldn't say about the others to be sure. Wouldn't it be more correct to say it has two cases, Nominative/Vocative anyway? I also think that sometimes it is used as an educational aid -- to try and draw comparisons between languages. We're certainly taught at school that English has "no cases", but I'm sure Romanian and Greek emphasise the case system in the pronouns. - Francis Tyers · 10:03, 9 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, "the cases of formed with various prepositions" is I think a contradiction, although something might be lost in the translation, or we might have a different concept of what 'case' is :) You can say "that book of Francis's was bought by me", although it seems a bit stilted. There is a discussion on the 's, see Saxon genitive and Genitive case. I haven't really researched the issue in depth so I don't have an opinion either way. - Francis Tyers · 10:57, 10 January 2007 (UTC)