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Re: HELP: Is this sensible?

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 17, 2004, 21:34
Hi!

Carsten Becker <post@...> writes:
> > In this case, your case assignment should be equal to > > that of English, which, I'm sure, you do not want, since adjectives > > can select different cases in your language. > > I'd handle the verbs in the examples like English, yes. I guess I still > stick far too much to the IE systems I'm used to.
That's quite normal. :-) My first language (and I had to do it without the help of any other conlanger at that time) was very IE at first and then moved towards Finnish, then X, then Y and finally was something very unique. :-) As Ayeri was, seemingly, started in December 2003, it's quite impressive: I did not even know that I should think about phonetics when I started Fukhian (no internet, *sigh*). Fukhian is still *very* chaotic wrt. phonetics.
> Heh, the next two weeks I'm not at home. I'm in Gießen for having a > working practice ("Praktikum") there I must have for school.
Ah, Gie"sen. I'm in Marburg quite often.
> The similarity to Tagalog has already faded I think. It's getting more > and more IE :(
Hmm, from your webpage, it does not look IE at all to me.
> > [...] > > > > Your language seems to be different in structure, in that it has as > > case what Tagalog has as triggers. > > Yes, I'm addicted to case ;)
That's a very, very good thing! :-) Learn Hungarian or Ithkuil! :-)))
> *sigh* I thought I would have understood what triggers are about > ...
When I read the Tagalog book (the one I quoted the examples from) for the first time, I could not believe people can handle that kind of structure while speaking. :-) It took a while to see the difference to voices in IE languages. But it is not too different on the other hand. **Henrik PS: Your homepage says: 'Leider stie"s dieses Interesse an Linguistik nur auf wenig Verst"andnis bei meinen Eltern und Klassenkameraden :(' Haha! Start inventing a script and put signs in that script everywhere in the house, especially a sign with your name on your room's door. They'll get used to it. My parents and friends got used to it, too. :-)))