Re: Fluency Wish-List

> (but then, does a rabbit have TWO legs?  Or four?  What do we
> do about animals, Doug?????)
Skerre handles the animal legs with the dual plural.  This means that if a
pirate has kili (a leg), and a Skerre has kuli (two legs), then a rabbit has
kukuli--the plural of the dual, which means that the rabbits has more than
one set of legs.  The plural in Skerre is a reduplicative prefix--the dual
covers a small set of words and is formed through an ablaut process (I think
that's the word).
And speaking of the plural prefix in Skerre--I empathize with you completely
Matt, since it took me five and half years to find the "perfect" plural
marker. I didn't have as much of a problem with the cases, but nevertheless,
the search for the "perfect" morphology can be a vain one indeed.
-Doug