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magomagno2 scripsit: > I'm working on my own ideal international Romance lang. I'm just > calling it Neo-Latin for now(I know, not very original) Here's some > of the basic stuff. Tell me what ya think. I'm not a fan of "international" languages. And I get furious when I hear about "ideal" languages. But since everybody is silent, let the Poisonous Snakie talk... > Nouns end in a, e, o, or u, according to their ablative singular > ending in Latin. > Aqua Fratre > Filio Fructu Why should you keep -u? In most natlangs those stems merged with -o-stems. > The plural is formed by adding -i. > Aquai Fratrei > Filioi Fructui Why not -s ? Usually adding -i produces other phonetic changes. > The definite article is il. The indefinite is un. No gender? Strange... Romlangs used to have gender... But if ideal means English-like, c'mon babe... > The Genitive is formed with de. > Il aqua de flumine. The river's water. > De + il = Di. This is the only contraction in Neo Latin. Why not "del" ? "Di" is a non-article form in Romlangs! > In il nomine **de patre**, e di filio, e di spiritu sancti. Of **a** father? > The Dative is formed with a, ad Why you call them "Genetive" and "Dative". Are they cases? ;)) > All adjectives end in the last remaining vowel, -i. > The compartive is formed by adding -or. > The superlative is formed by adding -ssimo Isn't comp. and sup. adjectives too? Why they have different ending? > Verbs have 4 tenses, Present, Past, Future, and Conditional. You call Cond. "tense"?!!! Dog my cats! > Well, what do ya think? I'm open to any comments or suggestions. I > know you'll probably tell me to get rid of the verb conjugations, but > I think they're easy enough to keep in. Many many natural (read: ideal) languages have them more... To end with, I think the lang you offer is not ideal. What are the criteria for idealness? I'm quite sure Japanese is much more ideal: all cases are denoted by postpositional particles, there are only 2 irregular verbs, the word order is fixed. And Mandarin Chinese is almost perfect: it has neither declension, nor conjugation. Therefore, good luck! ~~~~~~ Yitzik the Poisonous Snakie ~~~~~~