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

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.

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>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.
>>
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