Re: Prescriptivist grammar

On Thu, 20 May 1999, FFlores wrote:

> Just a couple things I wanted to share with you...
> I found these in an old book, "Gram=E1tica Castellana",
> in my workplace (a community centre's library). It's
> so ridiculous I had to tell you, about the use of
> the pronouns in Argentina, the informal _vos_ "you" vs.
> _t=FA_ ("standard" Spanish). I translate roughly=20
> (UPPERCASE emphasis mine):
<snip>=20

This remindes me of mr. Ma's grammar of Classical Chinese -
based on Latin into the details. I found it so enthralling that
I created a Latin grammar of Denden, too, full of paradigms like:

do=09ego
do=09me
edo=09mei
do=09mihi
do=09me

or

laismar=09=09mensa
laismar=09=09mensam
tan laismar=09mensae
laismar=09=09mensae
laismar=09=09mensa=20

(although I did have a macron at my disposal at the time.)

Really quite a fun project :-). I've also lying somewhere the
rudiments of a real, native, Denden prescriptive grammar...

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt