Re: Inflexions (was: Greenberg's universals for SVO languages & Caos Pidgin ruff-sketch)

On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 11:39:09AM +0100, Raymond Brown wrote:
[snip]
> But modern Greek is.  And, altho it doesn't have all the inflexions of the
> ancient language, it still has plenty enough to give the full flavor of an
> inflected language.  It shouldn't be too difficult to upgrade (or
> 'downgrade' in the view of some - not a view I share) from the Classical
> language to the modern one - at least if you stick to the written form  ;)
Heh, I like classical forms better. The ability to be so succinct (esp.
with those wondrous participles!) and yet so accurate simultaneously just
captures me. I know that modern Greek probably has other strengths, but I
just happen to like the classical forms more.

> If it is verb inflexions that you want, any of the Romance languages will
> do splendidly. Spanish also has the advantage of being widely spoken, being
> the official languages of some twenty or so nations IIRC.
[snip]

I know there are a lot of inflected languages around today. My point was
that I only knew one or two of them. :-)


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