Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 28, 2003, 22:01 |
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>Why is "autogyro" neuter? Might not it be masculine ablative? That would
>make the verb intransitive again (and it's happy-land), and it would also
>make the translation more exact. Though I thought
>ablative would be used for "by" as in "near" rather than "using, by
>means of".
'autogyro' could be masculine singular ablative or dative.
While early Latin differentiated ablative from instrumentive from locative,
by the peak of the Roman empire, they had all been subsumed in the ablative
case.
>ObStupidAmericanComment: where is Bath? Is it about an hour south of
>Rochester, New York? Or is it on the Mediterranean Sea, or in England?
Bath is in the UK.
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