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

>Alternatively, just forget the article and use demonstratives instead.
>The Sinitic languages (Chinese "dialects") and Malay/Indonesian don't have
>articles, and they use demonstratives ("this" and "that") instead. My
>conlang doesn't have articles either. IMNSHO, articles are cumbersome and
>redundant (except perhaps they're forgiveable in Attic Greek, where they
>are much more flexible than in English). Context usually makes it clear
>the scope of your nouns anyway, so why bother? :-)
Could you give me an example of demonstratives that could take the place of
articles?

And explain why Greek articles are forgivable...


>And don't worry if your conlang "copies" features of another language --
>the fact is, youu can never 100% copy how something works from another
>language (unless it's deliberate), and your unique combination of features
>is what makes your conlang special, not necessarily the originality of
>each feature.
Ok, thanks for reassuring me.  Trust me, I don't want to do this thing
half-assed ( forgive the term ).

Hantale,
Eruanno


>--
>Don't modify spaghetti code unless you can eat the consequences.
Now that is some word from the wise!
You know how many times I have tried to help newbies to C++ on IRC and all
their code is spaghetti code?  Lol
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