Re: Lenmoct

Jake wrote:
<<This is my first mention of my newest language (sketch), Lenmoct.
The name is pronounced ['lEm:VC] and means mother-goddess.
My goal was to create a reverse-sexist conlang with an interesting-
looking orthography.>>

First question: Why...?   (Not the orthography part, incidently.)

<<That first sentence (there is...) is necessary in Lenmoct, because it tells
you the players in the story and what gender and inversion they will
have.>>

That might get cumbersome.   Anyway, though, it reminds me of (I'm not sure
if I've got the right term here) resumptive pronouns, where in English you'll
say, "My friend, he's a teacher" in favor of "My friend is a teacher".   And,
come to think of it, I have a language like this, don't I?   Holy smoke!
Yeah.   I made pronouns obligatory in the verb (a situation that could later
lead to a circumfix that agrees with the subject and the object), and so if
you want to state the arguments, you have to state them first.   Example:

wa ketane ja = I saw you.
sa ketane sa = S/he/it saw him/her/it.

In order to qualify the latter, you'd do it thus (let's say the seer is name
Baaba and the see-ee is named Sotu):

Baaba li Sotu sa ketane sa = Baaba saw Sotu.

However, with mine, rather that the initial phrase being the rule, it's the
exception.   So, you don't *have* to have the initial adjuncts if the subject
and objects are understood (as they always are, presumably, with first and
second person).   Yours seem to work in the opposite way, where the initial
part is always obligatory, which leads me to the question: Could you leave
out the verb phrase?   For example, you could "Cil cgot ci tddan", and that
would be understood as "The woman did something to the man".   You don't need
to know what--especially if context could give you a clue.   Wow, that's
neat!   I love it!   All right, I need to go shower now.

-Dave

P.S.: I feel your pain with the
I-posted-this-post-three-days-ago-and-not-one-person-has-responded.   Comes
with the territory.   Thick skin, Jake!

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