Re: Weekly Vocab 8

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...

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Camilla
nindára de nelde mambiar

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