Re: Case

On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, nicole wrote:

> My conlang used to have a really really elaborate case system, with
> probably about twenty five different cases.  Recently I decided to
> change this to just a few:
> nominative
> accusative
> dative
> genitive
> prepositional(?)-does anyone have a better name for that-its for use
> after prepositions, obviously
>
> I'm just curious, but those of you who do use case in your language, how
> many do you have?  Where does it go from being "cool" to just plain
> unworkable?
>
> Nicole
I find it gets annoying after three or four.  I like nom/acc, gen, dat.