Re: Matein Einlich (Modern English)

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:28:09 +1100, Tristan McLeay
<conlang@...> wrote:

>On 9 Feb 2005, at 2.23 pm, Matt Arriola wrote:
>
>> That's pretty cool, but why did everything switch around all of a
>> sudden? (postpositions, suffixed article, etc)
>
>Postpositions could come about, perhaps, by reanalysing things like 'to
>take (something) off' and generalising from that. I would suppose such
>a process would either be slow and incomplete or very quick and sudden.
Yes, from that and from phrases like "Where are you going to?", which are
then generalized.

>Nevertheless, it seems more like Matein Einlich is a conlang based on
>English, rather than a conlang evolving English (if you get my
>distinction)
There's no difference for me there - that's just splitting hairs.

--
Pascal A. Kramm, author of:
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