Re: Conlang Irregularities

> Sally Caves wrote:
>
>  > of grammar.  How many of you established
>  > conlangers, after having done that, deliberately
>  > introduce irregularities and contradictions into
>  > your conlang with an eye to giving it dimension
>
>  > In other words, how many exceptions to the rules
>  > you' ve made will you tolerate?  One of the
>  > criticisms leveled at invented languages is that
>  > they are too regular.  Does that bother you?
>  >
in elv ned'm the pronouns are fused forms from old affixes.  some of these
affixes are no longer the standard.  for example, the genitive case in
pronouns is based on the suffix -esh, but most nouns use -od to represent the
genitive.  The use of -esh in nouns would indicate that a noun was replacing
some other noun.
e.g.  yeniks nolod - the door's handle (lit. handle door-of)
mimsh yeniks -the part's handle (lit. part-'s handle) This would indicate that
mim is referring to something already mentioned, presumably in this example
the door which is 'part' of a house or a building.

ned'm also has a few euphemistic constructions, such as ecpressing the passive
as a reflexive a la spanish, but with the agentive in the prepositional
construction "with ___", e.g.
n'tee aydaka foyt yay tajeng Jonee
stick self-past break with hand-of-him Johnny
The stick was broken by johnny's own hand