Re: And now... a new conlang!

Barry Garcia wrote:
>
> grandsir@natlab.research.philips.com writes:
> >    So what do you think of all this? Do you think I achieve my goal (at
> >least for the writing)? I will share the development of the grammar as
> >soon as I have enough ideas about it. The grammatical features won't be
> >very original I think (verbs, nouns and all the like...) but I will try
> >to keep my idea of "disturbance", using them in strange ways (like
> >conjugating verbs like in European languages, but for aspect, not for
> >tense). This will be surely a VOS or VSO language (or maybe both, one
> >order marked and the other not, or one order for one tense and the other
> >for another...), but that's all I know for the moment. Feel free to give
> >me your comments and ideas!
> >
> >--
> >        Christophe Grandsire
>
> My my mr Grandsire, you have quite a beast there :). Bitten by the conlang
> bug again eh? Anyway your new conlang sounds interesting. If i saw it
> written out without reading about it, i would probably say it quite
> differently from how it's supposed to be read.
        Exactly the kind of reaction I wanted to have (that's the reaction I
had with Dutch also, but now it's finished).

> It would be interesting to have a VSO grammar. Tagalog, and my first
> conlang are like that. Here's an idea from Tagalog (since i dont have it
> in my conlang), use a particle to distinguish one word order from the
> other. In Tagalog if you put the subject first and the predicate last, you
> link the subject to the predicate with <ay> (/ai/). If it's predicate
> first, the linker disappears:
>
> Ako ay Pilipino - I am Filipino (subject first)
> Pilipino ako - I am Filipino (predicate first)
>
> anyway just an idea for ya :)
>
        That's a good idea! I was toying the idea of surrounding particles for
subordination. I could use something like this to mark an "abnormal"
word order (like "I who am Filipino" to take your own example).

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