Re: Greetings

Alo, Mate! (That's Matt in Kartesian)

   Yes, you were very warm...in fact almost perfect.  _Tidi_ is the
accusative case of the noun _tide_ (pronounced TEE-deh... I thought I'd
throw in a pronunciation tidbit, since this word is commonly mispronounced
when people see it...)  Currently Kartesian nouns have three cases and
two moods, resulting in six forms:

nominative _TIDE_       nom. poss. _TIDEE_
accusative _TIDI_       acc. poss. _TIDII_
dative     _TIDIIE_     dat. poss. _TIDJEE_ (irregular)

The same holds true for the noun _mote_ so I will not inflect it here.

(Once again, may I mention that there are NO doubled vowels in kartesian.
It is simply the fact that accents are nonexistant on my computer which
prohibits them from appearing on the screen.  It's kinda confusing and I
really hope the whole Unicode thing happens soon!)

_vjot_ is the pronoun "this" and _vjooa_ is the determiner "this".

_ot_ is EXACTLY the present tense copular element "is".  The verb "to be"
is _ce_ and has two "classes" of conjugation, which I affectionately like
to call "class 1" and "class 2" (yeah, the names need work).  _ot_ is from
class two which has only two forms, one for singular subjects and one for
plural subjects (_ose_).

So yes, you were quite right with your gramatical analysis, Matt.  If you
or anyone has more questions, don't hesitate to ask!

Emevone s'isi nele u se tide ciiez!

-- Josh :)

On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, J Matthew Pearson wrote:

> Elie itskanat iteh tuke, ia Tsiosie!  Ikoin kas oponulkamia iten sulneho io...
>
> Welcome to the list, Josh!  Now you have to tell us something about your
> language...
>
> I guess that _tidi_ means language, _mote/moti_ means "list", _vjooa_ and
> _vjot_ are different forms of "this" (perhaps determiner and pronoun,
> respectively), and _ot_ is some sort of present tense copular element ("is").
> Am I warm?  Please tell more.  My favourite part of this list is reading
> grammatical sketches of other people's languages.
>
> Matt.
>
> Josh wrote:
>
> > Alo!
> >
> >    O pixi u mote vjooa ot.  Ve alooi te re xevee.  Vjot nii tidi ot.  Ovi
> > kartese penee.  Je moti vjooa re gofii wisaa jera otee.  Rede ve nii tidi
> > tjese puaa jewee.  O ve se tidi nele emevonaa mole yi.  Tue o gapi yisaa
> > jewe tu.  Eme ot.  Cayi hueea!
> >
> > (Hello!
> >
> >    I am new to this list.  I wanted to say hello.  This is my language.  I
> > call it Kartesian.  I am very happy that I found this list.  I now have a
> > place to share my language.  I have always liked creating languages.  So I
> > should have fun here.  That's all.  Good bye!)
> >
> > For those whom it may concern, the doubled vowels written in the Kartesian
> > text above are supposed to be accented, but obviously...well, you all know
> > the whole Unicode issue, so I won't go there.  I shall be back soon.
> >
> > -- Josh :)
>
>