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From: tim@uw-nsr.UUCP (tim@uw-nsr)
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: Esperanto
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Date: Fri, 24-Oct-86 23:58:02 EST
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In article <2808@watmath.UUCP> credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond) writes:

>Esperanto ("hope") is an artificial language,  [ ... ]
>
>A few of its nouns:      [ ... ]
>
>  stelo        star (Latin stella, English stellar)
>  steloj       stars (j, pronounced like English y, makes a noun plural)
                       ^                             ^^^^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^
>                         [ ... ]

But how does Esperanto treat nouns that are sort of hybrid between singular
and plural, or singular in one language and plural in another?  I'm
referring to nouns such as the English pants/trousers, glasses/bifocals,
scissors, hair, mathematics, etc.