Re: CHAT: An introduction
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 5, 2003, 9:07 |
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--- Christian Thalmann skrzypszy:
> > "Pinnacle of morphological genius"? But that's *exactly* why the case
> > system was eventually scrapped in French: not enough distinction between
> > all the forms, and a mixed thing that made people constantly make
> > mistakes (and feminine words had the -s as pure mark of plural already
> > anyway).
>
> Pretty much the reasons why I dropped noun and adjective
> declension in Modern Jovian. That and the fact that I can
> economize a lot of syllables by reverting to the nominative
> form. =)
Hm. I wonder if Wenedyk will ever develop into a similar direction. It has four
cases, but they often share one form. Perhaps I will limit their number to two
or even abolish them altogether when I am ready for the dialect thing.
Jan
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