Friday, April 28, 2006

'Niciun' && 'Nicio'

Recently the Romanian Academy made some 'subtle' changes to the way the words are written.
The word 'none' in English has two forms in Romanian 'nici un' for the masculine gender and 'nici o' for feminine.
The forms 'nici un' and 'nici o' are quite natural because thet are additively constructed from a preposition ('nici') and an article('un/o'). The new forms 'niciun/nicio' are looking somehow odd to me as I tend to like the old form.

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