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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Collier" <petecollier@...> wrote: > > Aargh, don't talk to me about declension. I've spent months trying > to figure out what I can do with my nouns, and I'm getting nowhere > fast. Must have reworked them half a dozen ways - I just end up > with 90%+ irregularity, or an overly regularised, overly levelled, > bland monstrosity that just seems very unlikely. Hochdeutsch and > Latin do not for make good bedfellows. > > I do know, pretty much wich ever way I go I end up with things > being marked for 2 genders (m/f) and 3 cases (Genitive, a combined > Dative-Ablative and "Whatever-you'd-call-everyting-else-together") > - so that seems cut and dry. > But when I get down to the finer details I have plurals in one > declension resembling singulars in another, some datives that look > like nomintives, nominatives that look like genitives... ugh. > > Problem is a lot of vowels are disappearing due to a-umlaut early > on, then i- and j-umlaut later, and the Hochdeutsch phonology is > eventually levelling final vowels to <e>, which is messing up the > Latin endings (good), but not in any readily useable way (not so > good) . My ideal would be to be able to use umlaut morphologically, > as with German - but the triggers for umlaut exist in all all forms > in some declensions, only some forms in others, and not at all in > others. (snip) > > Pete. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Christopherson" <rakko@...> > To: <romconlang@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 11:30 PM > Subject: Re: [romconlang] Lethino Pronouns > > > On Mar 11, 2007, at 5:57 PM, jsjonesmiami wrote: > > This may not help, but for comparison purposes, I've put my current declensions up at http://qiihoskeh.googlepages.com/LeDeclen.htm Jeff