Re: Biwa (was: YAC: ...) (slightly off-topic)

> Mikael Johansson skrev:
>
> > > What's she doing that requires conlanging?
>
> > She's doing _conlanging_. The subject of her paper is constructing a
> > language. As such. :-)
>
> Oh!? I wish I'd known about conlanging when I did that. Instead
> I wound up doing something about the vikings. Boring! ;-)
lol!

Math-freak as I am, I wound up with a Senior College-level (B-uppsats) essay
on Fermat's last theorem and the maths involved with it... :-)
I actually got off to a congress with it :-)

> > The dual is included in the singular.
>
> How come? Haven't heard that one before. Why do they differ
> between one and three and more, but not one and two?
The story behind the Daharran is that they were once the pets of an
__ANCIENT__ interstellar civilisation, that transcended beyond all
recognition, and as the last prank they played on the universe in general,
they uplifted their pets (i.e. through diverse means granted them
intelligence and a technological civilisation). The number _three_ is
extremely prevalent throughout their culture, as a practical joke from their
creators; and thus they
a) have three numeri, and
b) distinguish triplets.

Thus, singular/dual, trial and plural.

> > A friend of mine described it as 'Latin on steroids'.
>
> Hehe. "You get what you read". When I started taking Old Icelandic
> I immediately introduced umlaut into Rinya.
LOL!

I seem to have a wild fascination at the moment for absurd amounts of
tenses, moods etc etc and conjugation tables that would drive any sane
person (i.e. _NOT_ me :-) out of their minds. :-)

> daniel
>
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// Mikael Johansson