Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
Hi! :)
> .. _speech act_ ..
> .. _Modality_ ..
> _Moods_ ..
I hope I've understood all this.. although I get the feeling that I need
to read up on this.
>>>Thus in German, I'd approximate that
>>>with 'Konjunktiv' ('subjunctive' in English?):
>>>
>>> *Hätt' das dann auch gesagt!
>>> *Wär dann halt nicht gegangen!
>>>
>>>Of course, these are ungrammatical, but nice for a conlang, as I said.
>>
>>They sound quite well to my untrained-in-German ears.
>
> It is totally ungrammatical, I can assume you! :-)))
>
>>I may even be tempted to use these :)
>
> Probably due to direct correspondence in Dutch?
I guess so. I'll have to train my "German feeling" so that they'll start
sounding wrong. Hmmm..
> I'm often tempted in
> the same way to use constructions in Dutch that Dutch people find
> quite wrong for the most interesting reasons. :-)
Hmmm :) examples? 8-)
René