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Re: Conlang conversation partners?

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Friday, May 4, 2001, 20:18
> I like the idea, but only for some languages. Using my languages as a > salient case, I could see speaking in Megdevi or Dangelis, but I would NEVER > even want to try to speak Gwejdr. It has vowel harmony, every single > consonant changes if its in front of a front vowel, stress is nearest to the > middle of a word, and if a vowel isn't stressed it changes, there are > thirteen, fully inflectional cases, pages and pages of verb conjugations > (with irregular verbs and back and front vowel conjugations), and, on top of > all that, it's an OVS language. If someone ever learned to speak that > language fluently, I would shoot that person.
Why? It sounds interesting enough for me to consider learning it...it can't be much harder than Tundra Nenets, and it only has 13 cases instead of 24 like Hungarian. -------ferko Ferenc Gy. Valoczy Free British Columbia! Virtual Votia - Vaddjamaa Internetaza: http://www.geocities.com/uralica railways page: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3976/ 25kV 50Hz: http://www.mp3.com/25kV50Hz