Neat conlang words

Quoting Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:

> Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > Yza reimolazo
> > yza reim     -ol      -azo
> > 3f  see      PASSIVE  PAST
> > "She saw"
> >
> > Eze reimeizazo
> > eze reim     -eiz        -azo
> > 3m  contact  ANTIPASSIVE PAST
> > "He was seen"
>
> This seems backwards to me.  Shouldn't the first be "antipassive" and
> the second "passive"?
>
> > PS Altaii word of the day; Maralandzhinistaiz "neotraditionalism".
>
> Reminds me of "Democratic Monarchism", the political philosophy behind
> the Fifth Kassi Empire.  I don't know their language well enough to know
> how to say it, tho.  :-)
Reminds me of Phaleran:  _Andûrprâs_ "Rule by the whim or fancy of
a hereditary autocrat".  (This was inspired by the English word
_schediasmatocracy_, of the same meaning, used to describe the
internal politics of the city of Chicago.)

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