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

En réponse à andrew <hobbit@...>:

> >
> Better now?
> > >
Much better, thank you :)) .

> >
> Mmmmm, nice warm thought.  One never knows when one might need an
> exterminator of evil undead!
Well, I prefer doing the dirty job myself, it's much more rewarding ;))) .

  BtVS is at the top of my list of
> favorite
> current shows - at least, now that B5 has gone the way of all things.
>
Here in the Netherlands I'm lucky enough to have every Wednesday evening my
three favourite series: Buffy, Charmed and Angel, one after the other :)) . And
since Sailor Moon finally arrived in Holland, I'm the happiest man in the
world ;)))) .

> I have also seen in some words the plural verb ending lose dental stop
> in the ending, but I can't think of an example off hand.  The process
> is
> -ede > -eje > -ee > -e.
>
Nice, it adds some nice irregularity to the weak verbs :) . I suppose it
happens only with verbs whose root already ends with a vowel...

> I must have a go at downloading Kura onto my linux box and seeing if
> it
> is helpful in transcribing Zelandish.
>
Ha... Kura... Too bad Qt is not free anymore for Windows (I'd nearly install
Linux just for it, but I'm not of a hacker enough to install it the way I want.
And there are now so many different Linux distributions that I don't know which
one to choose...).

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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