Re: OT: sorta OT: cases, please help...

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 14:12:58 +1100, Tristan Alexander McLeay
<anstouh@...> wrote:

>On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Christopher B Wright wrote:
>
>> Someone mentioned "student" being in the instrumental case. Polish can do
>> what it wants to do as long as it doesn't do what English does, because
>> then it would (likely) be worse. (I don't like my native language; it has
>> something to do with that (C) (C) (C) (V) V (V) (C) (C) (C) syllabic
>> style and 20+ vowels represented by five or six overlapping symbols,
>> which caused me to limit my alphabets and syllabic styles considerably.)
>
>What word has VVV? or VV, for that matter, unless diphthongs are being
>counted as containing two seperate elements?
I exaggerate. Also, I tend to obsessively correct spelling while being
uncertain in many cases so I tried to make conlangs that can't be
misspelled unless they're mispronounced and I know how to pronounce them
and my tongue is burning....

>Tristan
Christopher Wright