Re: Verbs as Adjectives - Reply and Thanks. :)

on 7/13/04 6:32 AM, Chris Bates at chris.maths_student@NTLWORLD.COM wrote:

> Thanks to Everyone who replied before! I've been giving the matter a lot
> of thought anyway... still haven't decided exactly how I'm going to do
> it. Since a couple of people gave Japanese as an example I've been
> learning a little japanese from this book which teaches it in romanized
> form... just to find out the basics of Japanese grammar, since I don't
> really have time to learn it properly including Kanji, Hiragana etc.
> *sigh* I love the look of the Hiragana though... its a very nice
> syllablary (how do you spell that word!?!?!), but the Kanji in the
> middle spoil the look of written Japanese. They're much uglier than the
> Hiragana.
> Anyway... my little toy aux-lang is kindof coming along, although at
> this rate I'll get bored before I get anywhere near finishing the damn
> thing. Making it easy for everyone is so difficult.... I have a
> phonology of 15 consonants, and a mainly CVCV... structure and that's
> boring, and so much thought has to go into everything instead of just
> putting in what would be the most fun... as I mentioned before, I've
> already drifted back into conlanging territory a bit, since on an
> impulse I added a simple switch system to the verbs, which probably
> isn't a good idea for a conlang. *sigh* I've been thinking about using
> it for the basis of a proper conlang anyway... I've decided I'm going to
> build it with the grammar and phonology as easy as I can then do a
> massive series of sound and grammar changes and make it an evil,
> difficult to pronounce synthetic language with a lot of liason à la
> français (the liason bit, not the evil bit).
> I've included an optional plural affix, but since Japanese gets by
> perfectly well without any plural affixes for most nouns (I think
> there's a plural form for the noun "person" isn't there? And a couple of
> other nouns... along with the pronouns) I'm thinking about ditching any
> grammatical indication of plurality and simply having a verb/adjective
> "to be many" which people can use if they want.
Check out the Ceqli use of 'ze'
http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/numbers.html
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