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Re: yet another new conlang web page

From:Adam Parrish <myth@...>
Date:Friday, July 16, 1999, 19:21
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