Re: OT: sorta OT: cases: please help...

On Thursday, December 6, 2001, at 09:57 , Thomas R. Wier wrote:

> Quoting Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>:
>>    :-/  I've never been able to figure out how/why je/me are clitics,
>> mainly because the only thing I know for sure is a clitic is "que" of
>> Latin "[X] [Y]que," and I could even be wrong about that.
>
> English has lots of clitics.  "n't", "'m" (for am), "'re",
> "'s" (for is), "'s" (for possessive), "'em" (plural "them"), etc.
> French is only confusing because it doesn't write je/me as such,
> unlike English and Latin. (Greek didn't mark at least one as such
> either: <te> "and" is always written as if it were a freestanding
> particle, though it changes the phonology of preceding words like
> an enclitic)
I get it now.  Thanks!

ObConlang: I think the only clitics I've got in *any* of my conlangs are
the conjunctions in Tasratal, which behave like the Latin "[X] [Y]que":

"Yoon" "Yune"-zel : Yoon AND Yune (where Yune is my younger sister, whose
name is pronounced *exactly* the same and even spelled *exactly* the same
in *Korean,* God knows what our parents were thinking)

"Yoon" "Yune"-ga-zel : Yoon OR Yune

"Yoon" "Yune"-ken-ga-zel : Yoon XOR Yune

(One comp-sci class too many, even though I'm awful at logic gates...)

Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofveils.com]
http://pegasus.cityofveils.com

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