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--- Peter Collier <petecollier@hidden.email>
wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Padraic Brown" <elemtilas@hidden.email>
> To: <romconlang@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 10:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [romconlang] Lethino Pronouns
>
>
>
> >> 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.
> >
> > Sounds perfect! What exactly is the problem
> > again?
>
>
> Erm, a feasible, comprehensibile morphology?...
Look at it like this: it's _natural_! Real
languages end up with mix-n-match forms of this
sort.
> > You might look into Germanech and how it has
> > solved the issue of German and Latin in the
> same
> > bed.
> >
> > Padraic
>
>
> I may do, thanks for the tip.
Nice language. You can find it at Langmaker or
Frathwiki. Its creator skulks about in Lost
Language League (a Yahoo group).
Padraic
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