Re: first try at conlanging

Christophe Grandsire a écrit :

> Probably not many, since most educated people in France are absolutely unable
> to make the difference between language and orthography. Ask a French man how
> many vowels there is in French, he'll answer invariably: 5 (a, e, i, o, u) (or
> 6 if he considers y as a vowel), how to mark plural: "add an s at the end of
> the word in general". He'll answer to questions about phonology and grammar by
> orthographic considerations. And guess why I'm mad at the French system of
> education!! :)))
Well, I am afraid this is not so french-specific. Thus in romanian (which has a
phonlogic orthography), children are taught that their language has five cases
(nominative, accusative, vocative, genitive, dative) but that the dative is
identical to the genitive and the accusative (but there is still five DISTINCT
cases)

>
> > The figures for the more common types (SVO, SOV, VSO) are :
> >
> >  SOV (Turkish, Quechua, Latin) : a bit more than 40%
> >  SVO (English, French, Breton, Chinese) : a bit less than 40%
> >  VSO (Welsh) : 15%
> >
>
> I'll check the figures I have, but I agree with the figure on VSO. You just
> have to put a little less on the two others.
>
Yes, that’s likely, these figure are quite rough anyway

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