Re: New language: Tama-i
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 2, 2003, 14:22 |
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On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:56:12AM -0400, J Y S Czhang wrote:
> In a message dated 2003:10:01 07:17:45 PM, hsteoh@QUICKFUR.ATH.CX writes:
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> >What do fellow conlangers think of Tama-i? Is it a worthy successor to
> >its Ebisedian heritage? :-)
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> Yepyep. Very intriguin' sensible contrast to Ebisedian.
Intriguing, yes. Contrast, yes. Sensible??? :-P Wait till you see the
insane behaviour of pronouns as clitics... (oh, and btw, the pronouns
still do not distinguish between 2nd and 3rd person. And now that they
sometimes behave like clitics, and are horribly similar to each other,
it's becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of who's being referred
to by what...)
> And, yeah, it "sounds 'smoother' " and "has a certain suave flavor...".
> Mayhaps you can make it somewhat like a post-creole mesolect descended
> from Ebisedian, huh? huh?
[snip]
Don't know about that... but one feature of Tama-i which I thought be
interest our venerable Hanuman Zhang is the new pronunciation for _vyy'i_,
which is now written _vii'_ and pronounced ["wi:]. So the old "spiral off"
expletive now sounds like "let's wheeeee!" ;-)
T
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