Re: On doubt relief ... (family tree revision)

Joseph Flatula wrote:
>From: +ACI-Andreas Johansson+ACI- +ADw-and+AF8-yo+AEA-HOTMAIL.COM+AD4-
>Subject: On doubt relief ... (family tree revision)
>
>
>+AD4- So, I guess that the rub of the matter is whether I'll accept a
>further
>+AD4- reshake along with the chronological one to gain in +ACI-internal
>plausibility+ACI-
>+AD4- on the sociolinguistic plane. I'm currently leaning towards making
>the
>+AD4- revision, but I feel I could use some counseling.
>
>As to what's possible in a language - pretty much anything goes.  If you
>want to get rid of the old article +ACI-ez+ACI-, just make up another word
>+ACI-ez+ACI- that
>means +ACI-chicken+ACI- or +ACI-to dance in circles+ACI-.  Then the
>interference between the
>two words causes there to be some separation.  In one set of languages, it
>is solved by saying +ACI-ezda+ACI- for +ACI-chicken+ACI- and leaving
>+ACI-ez+ACI- for +ACI-the+ACI-.  In the
>other language, +ACI-ez+ACI- +AD0- +ACI-the+ACI- is dropped, and
>+ACI-ha+ACI- is developed as a
>workaround that becomes standard.
I have a hard time seeing an article, that'll be appearing in pretty much
every sentence, being discarded in favour of some noun or verb.
>
>But by far, the most internally plausible system is to actually have an
>ancient language that descends to the modern ones.  Right now, if I want to
>make a word in Th+AOE-xata, I have two choices.  Either is is a neologism
>that
>the Toran coined themselves in their own language, Th+AOE-xata, or it is a
>word
>that's been around the whole time, back from the ancestral tongue.  If it's
>from the ancestral tongue, I go back to that language, make the word, then
>put it through the sound changes I've already developed, and then I've got
>a
>Th+AOE-xata word.  Or of course, they could borrow it from some other
>language,
>but for cultural reasons, that's less likely.
Trouble is, Classical Klaish, of which Telenzh would be a descendant in the
new scheme, is rather more fleshed out than is Telenzh, and has a definite
article _eza_, that ought to yield _ez_ in Telenzh, unless I totally scrap
everything I've done on Telenzh. So, to rescue _ha_, _ez_ must be made fall
out of use.


Andreas

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