Re: a grammar sketch...
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 30, 2000, 1:38 |
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On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Rhiemeier wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, The Gray Wizard wrote:
> >
> > > Seems like active systems are favorites among the current crop of new
> > > conlangs.
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> Who pioneered that trend? Or is it impossible to tell?
> All I know is that when I started designing Nur-ellen, I hadn't heard
> of active languages, nor seen any. It was just something that spranf
> to my mind when trying to understand ergativity, and seemed so natural
> that I decided to use it.
I'm too new. :-p I saw it in that Ranto on Esperanto whose URL I've
forgotten again, but which someone else posted a while back, and thought:
That makes *sense*! And the others made less sense, so I chose case
marking. This is probably bad for diversity in any conlangs I end up
creating, though, because I have distinct prejudices. :-/
YHL