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Re: A perfect day for introducing myself

From:Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...>
Date:Friday, January 28, 2000, 13:21
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:58:08 -0500, John Cowan <jcowan@...>
wrote:

>Vasiliy Chernov wrote: > >> All this began when, still a schoolboy, I realized that English has a >> fixed word order and fails to distinguish verbal aspects. I found this >> so inconvenient that I immediately reformed it (by introducing >> declinable articles and profoundly reforming the tense system). > >I wonder how many conlangers have discovered the subject by attempting >to reform another language to bring it closer to their own.
- Much later, after reading something about Creoles, I pondered a bit on whether a coherent set of rules can be derived from the mistakes that can be expected from a Russian speaking a foreign language. One of funny things regarding creolized English: *ze* as the universal noun marker. From: A) Indiscriminate use of 'the' before any nominal group (*in ze Moscow*, *ze my frent*), B) Contaminated with re-analysed nominal sentences: *khi ze dokta* (no copula, like in Russian) <- 'He's a doctor', *khi ve ze nice boy* (with *ve* also <- 'were') <- 'he was a nice boy'. Basilius