Re: Let Me Introduce Myself

Sally Caves wrote:

> > My name is Maxime Lévesque,
>
>I'm glad to get a name.  I, too, wondered why you were using the sobriquet
>"#1."
I don't know I think it begun when I wanted to hide my name to someone I was
chatting with but I can't remember

> > I speak Frensh, English that I learn at school since I'm 12, and a
>little > of > spanish that I've learn during 3 years.
>
>Do you think that you will major in linguistics at University?
Yeah! that's exactly what I want but maybe not it's far but I'm going to go
In "language" to the CEGEP where I'll have advanced frensh and english
courses, spanish courses and, the second year, german courses.

I don't think you know what's a CEGEP because it exists only in Quebec so it
means "College d'Education Générale Et Proffessionelle" or "College of
general and proffessional education" it's after the secondary school (a
little like high school) during 2 years before university


Mark J. Reed wrote:

>In general I try to avoid correcting errors, but you've used that
>spelling consistently in your posts, so just for your information: the
>English word for français is spelled "French".  It is also pronounced to
>match - so that it sounds like "frentsh" rather than "frensh" - although
>there's not a great deal of difference between the two phonetically.
>(In the transcription system we use on here, called CXS for
>"Conlang-modified X-Sampa", it would be be written /frEntS)/.)
sorry, I really tought I had saw frensh somewhere but I just looked in (and
on) each of the dictionnaries, english grammars, and english books where it
could be written and you're right it's french...


Back to what Sally Caves  wrote:

> > I've started my first conlang a few weeks ago and discovered that
>mailing > list when I was searching for grammatical information about
>something I > don't remember.
>
>I would be very curious to know, Maxime, what inspired you to start
>inventing a language if you discovered this list accidentally.  I've found
>that quite a number of people come to conlanging independently of the list.
>And many of them before they've even heard of Tolkien.  So what was your
>inspiration?
Good question, let me remember. First I started to look for french (with a
c) grammar to be better at school... after I gegun to find other grammars
like english, spanish, breton, and someday: esperanto!

When i read about esperanto i found it so simple, it took me one hour to be
able to understand everything with a dictionary.

The problem with esperanto was that I didn't understand what meant
nominative and accusative when it talked about the "-n" suffix so I had to
read about cases and when I undestood for what they can served I wanted to
create a preposition-less language (after I discovered latin was already
like that...)

The only cases I didn't understand was the ergative-absolutive but now I
know and it seems so simple and even a little more logic than
nominative-accusative

Probably I'll create an ergative language someday