Re: Active Romance, Was: Active

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:49:47 +0100, Christophe Grandsire
<Christophe.Grandsire@...> wrote:

>). If all this is accompanied by some sound changes that make all this
>shorter, <...>
Yes, of course. The way I spell it is like writing:

"Est ecce_hoc quid ego non ibi habeo pensatum passum?"

- for the French "Est-ce que je n'y ai pensé pas?" [esk ZjEpANsEpA] (is
this example correct? ;) ).

><...> (I can imagine figura and causa becoming affixes to make an active
>noun inactive or an inactive noun active - interesting kind of declination
>- ).
The choice of _figura_ and _causa_ was one of the points where I need more
feedback. I considered a couple of other possibilities, and I think there
must be other nouns worth considering.

And there seem to be many alternative solutions for other groups of verbs.

Now I'm pondering about verbs of perception ('see', 'hear', 'smell', etc.).

E. g.:

Illud pro puerum in visu positum est 'The boy can see it'.

(or 'in visu pueri' ;) ?)


Basilius