Re: Conlang Typology Survey

In a message dated 2003:05:23 05:13:54 AM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR
writes:

>En réponse à Adam Walker :
>
>>This would have been a perfect chance to use that
>>plural form in Klingon which when applied to sentients
>>and their constituant parts carries the additional
>>meaning "scattered everywhere".
>
>LOL. I just *need* to have that in Maggel ;))) (maybe one of the few
>productive derivative features ;)))) ).
    Well, of course, especially since the modern speakers of Maggel are
direct-descendants of Pict-like barbarians. Right, CG?

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