Re: Spoken Thoughts ( My second, better formed, non crappy Language)
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 30, 2000, 4:57 |
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On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 10:28:42 -0500, John Cowan <cowan@...>
wrote:
>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.
Or there's also the option of making different kinds of distinctions other
than definite or indefinite in the articles if you do have them. Even
comparing languages like English and French, the use of (or lack of) the
articles is not directly equivalent. I've been trying to find a post I made
a while back on an idea I had for a language that had more than two
articles, but I don't even remember what the name of the language was.
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