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Re: Spoken Thoughts ( My second, better formed, non crappy Language)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Friday, December 29, 2000, 15:28
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Eruanno none wrote:

> Halo, > Some of you may know me, others, may not. All the same:
Welcome!
> With all my knowledge ( which was very incomplete at the time ( and still is > quite considerably insufficient )), I formed the language titled Eowend.
All of us are considerably insufficient in knowledge about languages. Some know a little more than others, that's all.
> Needless to say, it being my first attempt, it failed miserably. > I had no cases, no distinction between verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, > and what not...
Ah, just like that miserable failure among languages, Chinese! Or that miserable failure among constructed languages, Loglan/Lojban! (In other words, not all languages look like (Elven-)Latin.)
> Here is where you come in ( and I thank you for your time if you have made > it thus far ). I cannot decide what I should do about the articles, IE: The > thing, compared to A thing.
Well, since you are making an art language, nobody can tell you what to put in it. There are four main options: both definite and indefinite articles, like Germanic and Romance; definite only, like Celtic and Greek and Semitic; indefinite only, like Iranian; neither, like Latin. Personally I kinda favor either definite only or neither. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter