Re: A wacky language

En réponse à Andreas Johansson :


>Your adpositions should be impositions (ie, go in the middle of the word).
>Plural should be indicated by reduplication of the preceding word, and verbs
>should be discontinuous (ie, consist of 2+ separate bits that go in different
>places in the sentence).
Well, German and Dutch already have that, and Maggel is planned to have 
that too, so I'm not sure it's such a wacky feature (Maggel is a bit 
wackier than Dutch and German as it separately conjugates both bits of the 
verb :)) ).

>  Evidentiality should be indicated by suppletion of
>the verb stem, while imperative mood by reversing the tonal contour of the
>verb, except on the third syllable from the right, if present.
LOL. The verbs should also conjugate for future and non-future, and make no 
distinction between past and present :))) . The language should be written 
in a reverse abjad, i.e. with mandatory vowels as full letters and 
consonants not written at all or only optionally, but should have only 4 
vowels and 50 consonants, and make most of its grammatical marks through 
vowel changes :))) .

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang. 

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