Re: New Ideas... group project?

Dude. I know of a conlang just like that! >:P

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Carlos Thompson wrote:

> I've been thinking in some new ideas about a new language with no part of
> speech disctintion for words themselves but a functional inflection.
>
> The idea is not having a verb-noun disctintion, any word would function as
> either subject, object,  predicate, location or modifier.  The disctiontion
> in a phrase would be held by an inflection, like a case afix, and other
> modifiers, like tense, number or evidence would be given as afixes.  A word
> acting as object could have a tense mark, as a word acting as predicate
> could have a number mark.
>
> Any sugestions to this?  I wouldn't like it to be too aglutinative... I've
> think in biliteral or triliteral roots.
>
> Idea is to make it speakable for human beings, and roots should be
> selfsegregating from modifiers.
>
> _____
>   Carlos Eugenio Thompson Pinzsn
>   http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/9028/
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