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Quoted text in <<<<<<< these >>>>>>> again. <<<<<<< Message: 2 Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 12:55:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Padraic Brown <elemtilas@hidden.email> Subject: Re: Re: My romance lang. --- "Jeffrey S. Jones" <jeffsjones@hidden.email> wrote: [Magomagno wrote:] > > > I'm working on my own ideal international > > > Romance lang. [Iscripssí:] >> [W]e'd also like to see this >> message as the very last in which you tout it >> as "ideal" or "international". > > My impression is that magomagno wasn't too > serious about the policital aspect. Is that > correct, MM? Could be. We'll never know, cos the Wizard has decided to scrap Neo-Latin in favour of other projects. >>>>>>> Too bad. <<<<<<< Personally, I kind of liked it. But when the first thing out of a poster's mouth is chapter 1, verse 1 of the IALer's Gospel of the Promulgation, >>>>>>> IALer's Gospel of the Promulgation? Do you have a copy of that? It would make a dandy translation exercise, or maybe a relay text! <<<<<<< one can only assume that the intent is earnest unless further evidence to the contrary is forthcomming! >>>>>>> I've been trying to assume the opposite, so that I'll waste less time flaming. :) <<<<<<< > > No gender? Strange... Romlangs used to have gender... > > They still do. Some have all three inherited > genders. Euroclones tend to dump it for some > strange reason, though! > >>>>> > > The gender would have to be either biological or match the noun > ending. It's simpler to eliminate it. Agreed (a la English), but contrary to the premise. The premise being the use of the ablative singular (-â, -ô, -e, -î, -û, -ê) as the basis for the N-L nouns endings. >>>>>>> I had forgotten about that. I suppose one could invent new genders to match the declensions! <<<<<<< > My question is: Is the -i ending retained when adjectives are used as > nouns? Someone else also asked that; >>>>>>> I'm having trouble operating in realtime. <<<<<<< I also lamented the discrimination of important -i stem Latin nouns that will be forced into a nother declension simply because -i is now to be used as the adj. ending. Mind you, I'm not _against_ this solution, just wondering at it. Padraic. >>>>>>> Jeff Jones