Le cavallero a écrit:
>
> Those Auxlangs represented here that make use of definite articles, which do
> they use?
> The usual seems to be to have la (Esp), le (Ila), li (Occ).

Li situation es un poc plu complicat in Occi.: li general articul es
effectivmen "li", ma noi anc possede un articul "lu" quel servi por
substantivisar li adjectives dante les un sense de abstract neutres.
Talmen noi posse dir "lu bell" o "lu bon" in li sense de "li abstract
qualità esser bell o bon" o "li platonic idé del bellità o bonità".

On posse anc utilisar formes masculin e feminin del articule t.e. "lo" e
"la" quande to sembla necessi, specialmen por substantivisar adjectives
o quande li substantive ne posse esser modificat por indicar li sexu:
Pigal cita quam exemple: "lo cangurù", "la cangurù".

Adplu, anc in casu de necessità, ti articules posse portar li marca de
plural: "lis", etc. ("lis Goethe").

talmen,

lu bell = esp. "la belo"
lo bell = esp. "la (vir)belulo" ("la belulic^o")
la bell = esp. "la belulino".
los bell = esp. "la (vir)beluloj" ("la belulic^oj")
las bell = esp. "la belulinoj"


Nu, yo deve i'nmediatmen adjunter que omni ti possibilitàs ne es egal
secun lor frequentie (e dunc(?) lor utilità) in li real usu del lingue.
"li" es li max frequent articul. It es desfacil producter du o tri
phrases sin usar it. "lu" es mult minu usat ma on tamen vide it,
durantque "lo" e "la" e lor plurales es extremmen rari. De Wahl
introductet les in li grammatica, ma it sembla que ili nequande attinget
li statu de ver "vivent" morphemas. Probabilmen proque ili ne es realmen
util. (Ples notar que pluri grammatica-libres simplicmen ignora les).
Tàmen, ili posse esser util in certi casus, p. ex. si vu vole scrir
tractates de sexuologie marsupial in Occidental.



Stumbling over
> Romanova ( http://members.aol.com/dkcsac/myhomepage/romanova.htm )on the web,
> I noticed they use el.
> Are any other choices known to listmembers, particularly in romance type
> auxlangs?
> Are there opinions regarding to the question: "which is better?", better in
> the meaning of understandble at sight for the greatest number?
> Are there conflicts/possible misunderstandings/interferences for the learner
> with other "grammatical words", as might be the case in interlingua with the
>
> "le" from "ille" (used in object case, if I remember correctly at the
> moment)? While the definite article does not change, the pronoun takes the forms of
> la and lo as well, maybe a bit confusing, methinks.

Yo pensa que to es un bon exemple de ti theoric dangeres queles li
constructores de IAL sucia con grande efforties evitar e queles monstra
se completmen negligibil in li practica.

Li homophonie (partial o total) del definit articules e del obliqui
pronòmines eveni secun mi conossentie in li majorité (si ne li totalité)
del romanic lingues. To nequande provoca ver confusion.

Salutationes,

Stéphane Martin