Re: Let Me Introduce Myself

Hey!

Saruban ea Naranomanisa Tamaniecuran!
(Bienvenu au Conlang Mailinglist!)

First of all, I'm sorry that I thought you were French. OK,
so you're Québecois.

On Tuesday 28 December 2004 19:31, # 1 wrote:

 > 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.

Esperanto seems to have many words derived from Romance
languages, doesn't it? At least that's the impression I got
when I saw example texts not too long ago (without a
grammar and a dictionary, though).

 > 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...)

We've learnt that in primary school in the third year
actually ... OK, but don't let us start a flamewar about
education systems again like some months ago where a n00b
was scared away because of 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
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
sic!! (I hope the spacing won't be mixed up like last time!!)

 > Probbly I'll create an ergative language someday

Respect! I haven't understood it all yet.

And yes, Markos is right, for having studied English 'only'
four years, your English is very good!

Enjoy your stay here!

Cheers,
Carsten

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