Re: My web page

Eli Naeher wrote:
>
> Did my message the other day regarding the web page for my new language,
> jitihk zohse'n-don, get through?  I haven't seen any responses--is it the
> list or my language? :)
>
        I've just looked at your web page. I like the language, especially the
feature that all intransitive sentences must have a reduplication or
extension of the subject at the object slot, giving the feeling of an
"all-transitive" language where all verbs must have two core arguments.
The tense prefix on nouns is also a feature I like (and use in
Tj'a-ts'a~n).

        I only have a few comments:

- I can't see the images of the script in my browser (Netscape 4 on a
HP-UX terminal). They appear as broken links, but when I click on them
when the mouse and try "view image", they appear without a problem. Can
anyone tell me where the problem comes from?

- Your script has equivalents for the English letters q and x, but they
don't appear in the phonology chart. Are they special letters?

- The fact that modifiers and postpositions are inflected the same way
is interesting, but it makes me wonder: do they come from the same class
of words? And can any modifier take any of the endings, and in which
sense? Those modifier affixes are a little bit opaque to me. Can you
explain them, with examples, and in both cases of modifiers and
postpositions?

- I like particularly the way you make relative clauses. Do they have a
particular marking or do they function exactly like independent
sentences?

        That's all. I have no particular advice to give you, except to go on,
as the language seems very interesting.

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        Christophe Grandsire

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