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Languages and Linguistics

Lionel Mandrake

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3. Latin and Russian

Reply to Igel (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 10, 2021, 12:12 AM

Oct 2021

are also alike in that they lack articles. Russians learning English often don't know how to use articles.

In Classical Latin it was considered elegant style to put words far apart in a sentence when the inflections indicated their relationship.

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