Re: Zelandish (was: 2nd pers. pron. for God)

On 09/23 20:58  Isaac A. Penzev wrote:
> Sav bol!
> My apologies for procrastination with the reply: festivals always
> interrupt creative activity am make me 200 messages behind :-(
>
What festival was that?

> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 22:55:03 +1200 andrew c'azdy:
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Welcum and helo, myn broer, Jitzik-aka.
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> Nice combination of exotisms! Hålwesðu!
>
Du ert welcum.

> Agree 100%! Langs are fun!
> What about Russian-based pidgin?
>
What with surzhik and Russo-norsk and Sino-Russian pidgins there is
certainly a lot of material there, although it may not be written down
or anything.

> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> I have not read much on linguistics from your side of the curtains,
> but
> one of my favorite books on Proto-Indo-European is _Indo-European and
> the Indo-Europeans_ by Gamkrelidze and Ivanov.  The book feels like it
> comes out of left-field, but their reconstruction of Indo-European is
> just too irresistable for a conlanger not to play with.
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> Since it was in our Uni program, I didn't read it :-)))) D'you think
> it's worth reading?
>
I can't vouch for what they have written on morphology, but the volumes
of the semantics of Indo-European consciously influenced the background
to my IElang Vakaman.

- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus                         hobbit@griffler.co.nz
alias Mungo Foxburr of Loamsdown
http://hobbit.griffler.co.nz/homepage.html

"Ideas are trifles, just a few words...The fewer the words, the greater
the importance. I love you. Three words. Goodbye. One word.  Tinier than
I am, but with such power, such importance...I don't yet know what idea
I will become, but I do know it is just one word, a trifle, as I am a
Trifle, so it must be a very great idea indeed."
                      - from Delicate Creaturs by J. Michael Straczynski

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