Re: Yet another introduction

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Pavel Iosad wrote:

> Well, until now I have not taken the trouble to introduce myself, so I
> do so.
> I'm 16, living in Moscow and right now preparing for my exams in
> summer - first school finals and then entrance the Department of
> Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, Moscow State
> University. Though I don't read Reichenbach (non cuivis contingit adire
> Corinthum), I am not wholly unlettered.
You're way more lettered than I, but I am a lowly math person.  :-)
Hello!  Great to have you here.

> I've been trying to put together a conlang I could have liked for the
> past year or so, and my current project, Tolwd, seems to appeal to me.
Can you tell us a little about previous projects, too?

> It is a kind of mix between Welsh (of which I do enjoy the sound),
> Hungarian (which I just like a hell lot), and Chinese (which I'm
> absolutely in love with, studying in a school specializing in Oriental
> studies).
That sounds like a wonderfully eclectic mix.  :-)

> It has a relatively simple noun morphology (the object/subject
> distinction is almost completely demolished, and there is third Dative
> case), but the verb is awful - it just comes out of control! It has
I don't quite follow the phrase in parentheses.  Are you saying that there
are three cases, subject (nominative), object (accusative) and dative, and
that the distinction between the first two is morphologically almost gone?

Sorry, just clarifying for myself.

Sounds good to me.  :-)

Cheers,
YHL

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