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Re: CHAT: An introduction

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Sunday, June 8, 2003, 18:45
En réponse à Tristan McLeay :


>So it's essentially like saying 'me Iitdidn'twatch thefilm yesterday' >(accounting for the fact that I can't do much inflexion to English's >poor deprived article)?
Yep :) .
> That's funky! I like it! I'm sure I can work a >like feature into either Modern Føtisk or Pidse... (BTW... if the >important thing was the movie, could you say something like '[relevant >third-person pronoun] j'l'ai pas r'gardé l'film hier'?)
No, just "l'film j'l'ai pas r'gardé hier". As I said, Spoken French is a Topic-Comment language, not SVO. So arguments can freely move when necessary, since they are marked in function by a prefix ("preposition") and/or agreement in the verbal complex. Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.