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Re: CHAT: Worse Greek 102 (was: Bad Latin 101)

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Monday, February 5, 2001, 20:45
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Patrick Dunn wrote:

>Why stope there? English has declensiones too. Bringe them back!
I knowe, but I did notte wanten to saie! But, if tha muste...
>In >facte, why not ussan tha articlos definitos of Olde Englishe? It woulde >beon much easier than guessing which casam a nomen is in. Then, we coulde >havan thone free word ordorem, and poesis coulde beon more interesantus. > >Ah, shit, I don't knowan if half of thisse is right or not. It's likest a >conlang.
:D Padraic.
> >On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Padraic Brown wrote: > >> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Patrick Dunn wrote: >> >> >*grins* If we were truly pedantic, we would require that all words of >> >Latin derivation be declined properly in the English sentence of which >> >they are a part. >> > >> >"So I took my penem. . . . " "He is such an ignorat." (okay, still not >> >right, but what do you expect?) "I came to the conclusion from this >> >piece of dati." >> >> To be pedantic, "of" preceeds the dative/accusative, so "... of dato." >> And don't forget "...to the conclusione..." :) >> >> > >> >Wouldn't that be fun? hehehe >> > >> >> Ah, but you should also do the same for Graecis words; and would >> have to differentiare words borrowed from Old, Middle or Nova >> Frankisca _and_ have to declinare them prope... >> >> For what it's worth, the Romani seem to have done this at least to >> an extense with Graeca words, as most Latin gramaires have paragraphos >> on all the words declinata in Graeca (musice, etc.). >> >> Urk. My Old French and Anglo-Norman aren't what they should be for >> this exercise! >> >> Padraic. >> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > Living your life is a task so difficult, > it has never been attempted before. >