Re: Poetic sentence structure?

--- Joe wrote:
> Do any of your conlangs have a poetic/classical
> sentence structure, as in Zitwbata:
>
> Verb The Subject Prep Dative
In my Hattic language, word order is more or less
free, but there is a strong tendency toward VSO word
order. So, the first line of the ever-famous Babel
text will look like this:

Ha avõd pušu tkohu sum zõjukĩ ha sumoneš
luchĩ.

ha = and
avõd = imperfect, 3rd person pl. of võz "to have"
pušu = nom.N. of pušer "whole"
tkohu = world (N)
sum = one
zõjukĩ = acc.sg. of zõjuk "language"
sumoneš = nom.acc.pl. of sumoner "same"
luchĩ = acc.pl. of luch "word"

> for some reason, accusatives are considered ugly,
> and are used as little as possible.
Well, I have nothing in particular against the
accusative. A dative would be placed most likely
between the subject and the object, but that's nothing
unusual.

Jan

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wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that
happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great
comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." --- J.
Michael Straczynski

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