Re: yet another new conlang web page

On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> >
> >        http://www.inquo.net/~myth/conlang/estani/kusthu.html
> >
>         Well, I don't think it's so incomplete! You did that in one weeke=
nd?
> Impressive!
>
=09Mostly done in one weekend, yeah.  That's what I get for not
having a life . . . I say "incomplete" because I still haven't figured
out how exactly I'm going to do wh* questions and stuff like that.
=20
>         Yes indeed, there's definitely something Japanese in it, but also
> something Basque, don't you think so?
>
=09Heh, yeah.  Everything I didn't get from this little Japanese
grammar of mine I got from Basque web pages.  I really like the way
Basque is put together.

>         Just a problem in the first example of the use of conjunctions:
>=20
> krel   im ny  ning  nga spagte kejak   g=FCntte.
> sister my NOM honey ACC eat-3A because be-hungry-3A
> My sister ate honey because she was hungry.
>=20
>         Shouldn't it be the other way round? because what I understand he=
re is:
> 'She was hungry because my sister ate honey.'
>
=09You're absolutely right.  I guess I just got too accustomed to
having the verbs at the end of the sentence that I slipped on this one.
It should read:

krel   im ny  gu"ntte      kejak   ning  nga spagte
sister my NOM be-hungry-3A because honey ACC eat-3A
Because she was hungry, my sister ate honey.

>         That's the only problem I can see. For the rest, keep going!
>
=09Thanks for the help!

Later,
Adam