Re: Mapwords

En réponse à Harald Stoiber :


>But I have a beautifully evil idea for Christophe's Maggel:
>*hihi*
Don't be surprised if within a few days, a group of completely tatooed men
come at your door, take you away and make a nice stew out of you ;)))))) .

>Introduce one kind of mapword which marks singular, dual,
>separative plural (several separate elements) or
>collective plural (several elements as an entirety)
>on all nouns which will follow the mapword until the end
>of the entire sentences. The mapword will mark ALL the
>nouns - even across subclauses - in linear sequence. Case
>will be marked on the nouns directly, thus, confusing the
>receipient. *GGGGGG* *hehehe*
LOL. The number system is already stabilised in Maggel. I prefer the
current separation in singular, dual, unmarked plural and marked plural.
Much more confusing :))) . And marking it on the nouns themselves allows me
to play with many irregular forms ;) .

>If it should be from the dark depth of hell then you can
>introduce another mapword which marks case on the nouns
>(you should have MANY different cases *ggg*) across all
>subclauses but coming at the very end of the sentence.
>*hehehe*
*Marking* case?!!!!! It's *much* too straightforward for Maggel!!! (which
is happy with a few nouns having complement forms, and special forms for
the construct state, and doesn't want to go further than that. It's already
too much grammatical marking! ;))) )

>And if you really want to be a monster to the listeners,
>then you only need to make the second mapword mention the
>nouns in reverse order as compared to their occurrence in
>the rest of the sentence or compared to their sequence in
>the first mapword. *LOL*
Well, nice ideas for a future conlang ;)))) .

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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