Re: Nouns, they hate me!

On 10/10/07, Mia Soderquist <happycritter@...> wrote:
> Hello, good people of CONLANG!
>
> I think _veci_ ("brick") > vecin ("bricks") > vecinam ("bricks-acc.") is
> just hideous. I tried simply stripping out the case endings, but that
> really wasn't a satisfying solution either. I am not happy with -n for
> plurals either (though I am pleased with -l for the dual number), as it
> seems a little typical and not particularly aesthetically pleasing.
Personally, I find "vecinam" just fine. What exactly is wrong with it?

Perhaps it's too agglutinative? You might make the accusative and
plural endings synthetic, so you can keep -n for nom.pl. and switch to
-k or -j or whatever for acc.pl.

This really depends on what you find aesthetic. Personally, I like
nasals a lot, and have probably overused them in Yivrian. So "vecinam"
works great for me. As for overuse, -n may be overused for plurals,
but it's not as bad as -r and -i, which Yivrian uses.

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