Re: Graeca sine flexione

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Mark J. Reed wrote:
> I think the subject line was just to remind us where it came from. :)
Yes, I understand that. I wasn't really concerned with the subject line
so much as with Philip's webpage
http://gsf.wunschzetel.de/

Where rather than the dog Latin "Graeca sine flexione" it would IMO be
more logical to have the title:
"Greek without flexions" - Akļiteļiņika    (or, if one prefers, "Greek
without inflections" )

- or, if one wants to keep the abbreviation GSF, one could revive the
Shakespearean preposition 'sans' and have "Greek sans flexions" (Yes, I
rather like that     :)

On the page http://gsf.wunschzetel.de/intro it is a bit odd IMO to have
the dog Latin "Graeca sine flexione"  just one line above the correct
LSF name "Latino sine flexione."

> On 5/4/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
>
>> OOOPS!!!
>>
>> {blushes} I see GSF does have its own name: Aklitelinika or
>> Akljiteljinjika in plain ASCII.
>>
>> Why not stick it, rather than the, presumably, incorrect LSF name it
>> seems to be using?
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Philip Newton wrote:
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 > On 5/4/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
[snip]
 >> It's true we didn't spot this in the Feb. 2006 thread - (a) What
 >> language is the name "Graeca sine flexione"?
 >
 >
 > I suppose you could call it Dog Latin (
 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Latin )

I guess it is    :)
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Philip Newton wrote:
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 > On 5/4/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
[snip]
 >> I note the nouns are mainly derived from the accusative case forms, but
 >> the personal pronouns are clearly derived from _nominative_ forms.
[snip]
 >> In particular I find the use of γο to mean "me" very odd.
 >
 > I preferred it to an εγο with penultimate stress :)

Certainly - εγώ has final stress     :)
But ......

[snip]
 > Possibly mena / sena for 1+2sg, after Modern Greek,

Yep - that's precisely what I would've gone for if I were doing a
"modern Greek sans flexions" - of course an "ancient Greek sans
flexions" is another matter     ;)

[snip]
 > Thank you for your comments!

You're welcome.
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