Re: An early morning introduction (semi-long)

Wow, looks like I beat that crowd that makes a point of being the first to
welcome someone. I am the pre-welcome-wagon-wagon!
Welcome!

>I'm not new to the list, well at this time I am, but this isn't my first
return. I left at least once before, but I've been mostly a lurker. Some of
you might recognize the name (not the email) as the guy who ran some
statistics of users on the list, other's may not.

I lurked for quite a while before posting. There's enough interesting
material flying by most of the time that you can read it like a newspaper.

>I've written a fair deal of the grammar rules and such, (the folder of
information on my language and world is around 8 megs of data) but I won't
make this a long entry so I'll give highlights.

Which is bigger, the info on the world, or the language?

>English: I have a yellow pencil.
>
>NOntrOsa: PAta sedadas wIsamA nuldalkalmA.
>
>For the linguist geek in me I had to take the classic sentence and use it,
now to break it down. The capital vowels signify the long songs O = Oh, A =
ay (as in pay) etc... I never got the hang of using the // values for their
sounds so bear with me.

A couple of useful sites for that:
http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/ipa/full/ lets you hear the IPA letters, and
http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/studerende/thorinn/xsamchart.gif lets you
see how to type ASCII versions of them.

>The other high light I love about NOntrOsa is the system for noun number I
came up with. There are three set of "number" endings, Normal, Emphatic and
Incomplete.

Now this sounds interesting...

>Normal has Singular, plural and nullar. Nullar, as some might remember or
just plain recognize, is to show the number is zero.

Nullar! Yes, I know where I learned about that one.

<snip the numbers>

>Plural: There is no incomplete plural number
"only a few of?" Like a paucal number, maybe.

>Any questions?
Do you have any stuff related to your language on-line? I couldn't find any
(nice design though).

M

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