Re: Keeping Track of Ambiguity in your Conlang?
| From: | Amanda Babcock <langs@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 1, 2002, 21:04 |
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On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 08:18:06AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> You mean like English "lie, past lay" vs "lay, past laid"? :)
Yes, just like that :) English also has the noun plural suffix and the
verb singular-agreement suffix both being "s", which in situations
where verbs and nouns are not clearly distinguished (such as newspaper
headlines), causes amusing confusion :)
> German, because of vowel changes in strong verbs, also has the
> following interesting cases
Yep, those looked pretty confusing...
Amanda