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On 2008-12-16 R A Brown wrote:
> > and changed most of the suffixes
> > likewise so that adjectives were marked with <-ik>
> rather than <-a>,
>
> I remained faithful to Zamenhof's -a    :)
>
I also went over to -ik in my Juvenile Esperantid,
only to later go over to -i when I realized that many
European languages had a very similar adjective
ending: -y in English, -i and/or -y in the Slavic
Languages, -ig pronunced [I] in the Scandinavian
languages, -ig pronounced [IC] in German and -io/-ia
in Italian and Spanish.  I even had a notion that
something similar occurred in some Eastern languages,
(viz. Israeli, Saudi, Irani, Hindi).  This meant
an overhaul of the verbal system: the infinitive
became -er, the present -ar, the past -ir and the
future -ur (so that _futur_ meant "it will become"! :-),
and -s became the plural ending which could be
added to nouns and adjectives alike.
I don't remember ATM what I did to the conditional
and jussive endings, but I know for sure I changed
them.

/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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  "C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient
  à la langue de s'arrêter; les langues ni le soleil
  ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*,
  c'est qu'elles meurent."           (Victor Hugo)



/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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