Re: Thagojian and Wenetaic (was: Order of letters)

All my notes are at home (and I am not), so I'll
give a quick answer to one point, and get back to
you with the rest...

From: Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>

> > Meynian, which was a kind
> > of vanilla IE lang, though it was Split-S, had
> > a massive pronoun set and ratyher too many
> > vowels.
>
> What does "vanilla IE lang" mean?
"Vanilla" as in "ordinary", nothing deliberately
unusual about it, at least not wildly so. It was
designed to make translating into it easy rather
than interesting, at least for me. It was fairly
isolating, and had simple cases & tenses, and
pretty well just CV(C) syllables. Relative
clauses were bracketed by a "Start Rel. Cl." and
"End Rel. Cl." word-pair, with the latter being
optional if sentance-final.


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