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Re: Weekly Vocab 8

From:Camilla Drefvenborg <elmindreda@...>
Date:Sunday, May 25, 2003, 12:01
Mike Ellis de ortekera:

> Camilla Drefvenborg wrote: > >> I can't seem to find you in YUM. do you have your language online? it >> seems to offer answers to many of the questions which have arisen >> while working on my conlang's syntax. > > Glad I could (unwittingly) help. I wish I had something online. I > finished three and a half of seven sections of the grammar before > dropping work on it completely. There's a hell of a lot of grammar and > the task became enormous and no longer even remotely enjoyable.
I can certainly understand that. I've migrated all my material from Word to Mozilla, so that it is 1) not under proprietary control and 2) instantly publishable.
> I will push myself to at least get a short grammar sketch up if > someone's interested.
I am certainly interested, for one!
> How did you handle "no matter what"?
I just kind of didn't. though I remember something about using an adverb analogous to "absolutely", as in "absolutely not fail". then I thought that there should be an idiom for that, and then I went to work on one of the other sentences instead. by the way, how do you handle relative clauses? for some reason, I just can't seem to get it 'right', i.e. get it into a pleasing state. a rather broad question, I know, but any details would be very welcome indeed. oh, and just in case someone fluent in Nihongo is listening, how does it do it? I know it involves rather interesting knot-tying, due to the lack of relative pronouns, but... well... --- Camilla nindára de nelde mambiar

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