Re: R: Re: New to the list

> > > Do you have any info on your conlang? Curious minds want to know! :-)
> > >
> > My conlang is called Tierian (tee-air-ean) and is in its early early
> > infancy, I have an alphabet down and had endings for nouns, but I am
> > deciding whether I want to go isolative or use inflections. I am a large
> > Latin fan and the logical construction of Latin has me wanting endings,
> but
> > it is such a pain to speak Latin I don't think any natural language would
> > have as many endings as Latin.
>
> Cur? Latine loqui simplicissimum est; problema unum, vero, est: grammatica
> morphologiaque optime studendae sunt... sed lexicon certe simplicius est
> (hoc civi italico qui loquitur romandiam quemdam linguam, nescio vobis
> Anglophonis, sed linguae angliacae multa verba latina sunt, hodie quoque).
>
> Veniam quaeso eis qui latine non loquontur.
>
> Luca
Hooray!  I actually understood this, mostly, though I'm not brave enough
to attempt a translation.  Just goest to show that the one year of high
school Latin I took did some good.


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
"It is of the new things that men tire--of fashions and proposals and
improvements and change.  It is the old things that startle and
intoxicate.  It is the old things that are young."
-G.K. Chesterton _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_