Re: CHAT: Unconventional pronoun systemsshow us yours!

In Ayeri, I used to have inanimate second person pronouns. I
have not found any need for them up to now, so I think I'll
give up the idea again.
Anyway, I have to rewrite some parts of the grammar because
while writing down the Ayeri grammar, the language
developed further on in my head without me changing what I
wrote. I noticed this because someone recently asked me for
a German translation of the Ayeri grammar (she might
subscribe to the list, I recommended her here).
Nevertheless I'm going to finish translating my stuff
before I correct the English version. It's due to my
timetable which has extended very much now that I'm in 12th
grade: On Monday I have the first two lessons free (8 -
9:40am), but school until 3:45pm, on Tuesday school is from
8am to 4:30pm (!!), Wednesday from 8am to 1:10pm, Thursday
from 8am to 3pm with Physical Education from 4:30 to 6pm.
And finally on Friday, I have school from 8am to 3pm. Some
free lessons in between, though. After school homework,
teachers say we should be capable of all-in-all two hours
of doing homework everyday -- plus learning for class
tests ... This leaves me actually no time for anything at
the moment. I hope things will get better when I'm finished
with school in June 2006. If I should really going to study
Linguistics or should better learn _Verlagskaufmann_
(what's that in English?!) I don't know yet.

And yes, I'm also using "der", "die" and "das" with names
occassionally. E.g. like in "Der Markus hat aber gesagt,
dass ..." ("The Markus has said that ...") Maybe this is
due to my mother coming from the south. She grew up in
Lörrach, which is not very far from Basel, though on the
German side of the border.

Carsten

--
Eri silveváng aibannama padangin.
Nivaie evaenain eri ming silvoieváng caparei.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince
  -> http://www.beckerscarsten.de/?conlang=ayeri

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