Re: The Future Language

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 04:27:43 PST, Artem Kouzminykh <ural_liz@...>
wrote:

>That's all indeed is funny, but don't think Russian could ever go so really
>bureaucratic way in any future;-)
I hope so, too :D

><...> AFAIK natlangs generally become simplier
>with time, not more complex, as you demonstrated...
I'm not sure about this rule, but I think the system I outlined is *much*
simpler than today's Russian. Note that all cases are lost, and there is
no inflexion in verbs at all.

I tried to find out what may happen if people try to use 'educated'
language but avoid all forms which are difficult to build.

In later forms of Sanskrit, a tendency of this kind lead (reportedly) to
total loss of noun declension and a drastic simplification of verb
paradigms. People used constructions that were huge compound words from
the Classical Sanskrit perspective, but in fact represented whole
sentences (built of stems which remained unchangeable, as far as external
sandhi permitted).

I wanted to see how far Russian might go in this direction, and in which
ways.

>BTW,
>'Masha jela kashu' - 'imeL_mesto protsess'
>'Masha jest kashu' - 'imeEET_mesto protsess' ?
Yes, sure. A typo.

S nailuchshimi,

Vasiliy