Re: Singular Pluralities

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 22:00:01 +0200, Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:

>En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:
>
>> A punning comment on polygamy:  "The plural of 'spouse' is 'spice'."
>
>LOL
>
> I have to have some words in Maggel which behave like that (meaning,
> having a plural form identical to a singular word of different meaning,
> or variations on the same theme :))) ). But I suppose there are already
> conlangs out there which do that ;))) . Right?
>
>Christophe.
>
>http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
Of course! Rubaga has lots of words with forms duplicating forms of other
words*. Or will have ... I haven't worked much on vocabulary yet. I'm still
mostly working on explaining the orthography. I posted Part 1 recently. Did
you see it?

* for example, Nom/Acc.Sing of "name" and Dat.Plur. "us" both come out as
{nobe} [nOiv_j] in some contexts.

Jeff J.