Re: Matein Einlich (Modern English)
| From: | Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 5:28 |
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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.
Nevertheless, it seems more like Matein Einlich is a conlang based on
English, rather than a conlang evolving English (if you get my
distinction) as one would suppose from the name and the title of the
thread. Not that there's anything wrong with that: but I prefer mine
better :) (Coming up shortly.)
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Tristan.