Re: Strong Plurals?

Joseph Fatula wråt:


> > I like the sound of that :)  Accidental conlang features!
>
> I find that it happens rather often in my conlangs.  I thought of a fun
> vowel change that could apply to a language I've been fiddling with, so I
> sat down and applied it to a paragraph of text to see how it sounded.  I
> really liked the results, now I'm puzzling through what it does to the
> grammar.  A two-gender system just disappeared, being replaced with a
> 5-declension system for nouns, two of the cases merging into each other, and
> a whole set of inflections going away.  And thus changes a language from
> being agglutinative to inflectional.  I've had it happen before, but never
> so drastically in so short a time.
Yea, brother, that is the Sprachgeist! Modify one thing, and it will provoke
chain reaction. I'm still struggling with an alternative version of the GVS in
my Eðelenglisc. I want to avoid it, but it strangely finds its way to appear
from the other side of the scene, dressed differently. Can we call it
"resistance of a conlang material"?

~~~~~~Yitzik~~~~~~