Re: A Babel Text

En réponse à andrew <hobbit@...>:

> >
> Hmmm.  2.0 (working name) has no way of marking conditional sentences.
> The original used niensikuo, be_strong.passive, for marking potential,
> either can or could.  I have taken a dislike to [ensikuo] and it's
> going
> to be replaced.
>
Why? it's a nice sounds combination though... Well, de gustibus...

As for why the auxiliary for interrogation and negation is used to mark
conditional sentences in Chasmäöcho is easy to explain. In fact, conditional
sentences are to be analysed this way:

if..., ... becomes: ...? Then...
The condition itself is expressed as a question, while the "answer" to this
condition is marked as a subordinate clause :) . I find quite a nice way to
express conditions, at least quite original.

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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