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Re: YACL: Thylean (alternate-history)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 7, 2000, 23:32
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Nice name, you could go for it or have a few prescriptivist grammarians in your > Thyle who would keep the name "dative" to keep the link with their Latin > ancestry :)) .
Or, a la Romanian, genetive-dative-ablative. ;-)
> But you could also think of a later development of > Thylean where neuter nouns would be abandoned, merging with masculine nouns.
Reasonable change. IIRC, neuter nouns had a tendency to be masculine pretty early on in Vulgar Latin.
> Still, you could try and keep puritanity for the conjugations :))) (imagine: > keeping the old Latin future forms :) ).
And the passives! So boring the way that every Romance lang abandoned the passive. -- Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos God gave teeth; God will give bread - Lithuanian proverb ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor