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Re: Lethino Pronouns



--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:

> >          sing                           plur
> > dir     sa Zer                       sé Zerre
> > gen    sei Zerressu              saar Zerrer
> > dat    sy Zer                       sy Zerre
> >
> >...
> > Example: "Chapal"  (horse) m.
> >
> >          sing                           plur
> > dir     sé Chapal                  su Chapalle
> > gen    sei Chapälsu              sure Chapaller
> > dat    sy Chapal                   sy Chapälle
> >...
> 
> Nice! :-)  Looks French. :-P

Not to me... but certainly not German either.


> Interestingly, although I am planning a conlang with quite similar
> goals, I can already say that it will look completely different.
> E.g. I'd expect my lang to have 'Kawel' or something. :-)

That looks more like German.  


> Do you shift the accent to the first syllable?  Or do you keep the
> Romance accent?

It would certainly need that to feel German.  But the 
question is whether the pre-stress syllable should receive
the stress flat-out, or collapse in order to make the 
stressed syllable initial?  In other words, caballus >
Kabel or Quall?  Hom einspeckt nohn äune dohnte Quälle
Buck!  :D  Ooh, I love this.

Hmmm, I'm nearly tempted to launch a true Germanoromance 
myself.  Are those the new romlangs, in the sense that 
everybody has to go through that stage at some point?  ;)


-- Christian Thalmann