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Re: General comment re endings



I'm sorry for these little pieces of disinformation I was giving. I
didn't do it on purpose.

Regards,
Stephan

--- In Latejami@yahoogroups.com, MorphemeAddict@w... wrote:
>
> In a message dated 12/26/2005 1:37:25 PM Central Standard Time, 
> sts@s... writes:
> 
> 
> > We shall also not forget the Esperanto ending "-au" in "baldaux",
> > "morgaux", "hieraux", which always strictly refers to the speaker. It
> > resembles the Latejami ending "u" in this sence.
> > 
> 
> Again, "-aux" is not an ending; it's part of the root, and a
'pseudo-suffix' 
> at most.  It's special only because just a handful of words, mostly
adverbs, 
> end in it.  Words ending with this vowel cluster need no other
part-of-speech 
> ending, but such an ending may be added to change the part of
speech; e.g.  
> "adiaux" - 'goodbye', "adiauxi" - 'to say goodbye, to take one's
leave, etc.'.
> 
> In other words, Esperanto has a small number of words with default
parts of 
> speech.
> It'd be nice if teachers and textbooks of Esperanto would
acknowledge this 
> little tidbit.  
> 
> stevo
>