Re: evolving languages

Peter Bleackley wrote:

>At 11:17 17/01/03 +0100, you wrote:
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>>En réponse à Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:
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>>>Spanish, too.  Amare habeo -> amaré.  And furthermore, some dialects
>>>have lost the synthetic future for the new pariphrastic "voy a amar",
>>>altho AFAIK, there's no evidence that that, too, will become a
>>>synthetic
>>>form anytime soon.
>>>
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>>Well, it took more than 1000 years for the periphrastic AMARE HABEO to turn
>>into a synthetic future tense. Give the new Spanish form some time ;)))) .
>>
>>Christophe.
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>It makes me wonder whether a future form of English might have such forms as
>"I wigo", "I wibee" etc. "Future English"- now there's a conlang idea for
>somebody - is anybody doing anything along those lines? I imagine there'd
>be some Spanish influence, possibly some from Indian languages too.
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The problem with that is that how many people presently say 'I will go',
except when they intentionally articulate every word? The commoner form
is 'I'll go'; a more likely future form is /augou/, /aubi:/, with au-
being the first-person singular future tense marker, with the language
dropping the subject pronouns (unless in your dialect, /l/s aren't an
endangered or extinct species, and so you might get /algou/ or even
/ailgou/).

Tristan.

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