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Re: YACL: Thylean (alternate-history)

From:Oskar Gudlaugsson <hr_oskar@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 8, 2000, 1:15
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 18:32:39 -0500, Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:

(Cristophe Grandsire)

>> Still, you could try and keep puritanity for the conjugations :)))
(imagine:
>> keeping the old Latin future forms :) ).
Hehe. That made me laugh. No, I was thinking of ways to avoid the "cras amabo et regem" discrepancy. How the hell did they end up with that? And how could a language support that many uncomposed conjugations?!? (Answer: it couldn't! ;)
>And the passives! So boring the way that every Romance lang abandoned >the passive.
Wholeheartedly agree. I love the passives. They're high on the list of things I wanted to keep in Thylean. I'm thinking of making them more strictly middle voice though. Óskar