Re: What have I done???!!!!

Dan Jones sikayal:

> Oh my god! I have created a monster!!!!!!!
>
> I'm in the middle of restructuring Aredos (using Piotr Gasiorowski's
> useful little guide to PIE verbs) and have discovered that, when
> finished, the Aredos verb will have no less than 286 forms, and that's
> only if the participles aren't declined (when fully declined across
> three numbers, eight cases and three genders, the participles alone
> amount to 72 forms each. Four participles = 288 extra forms). In total,
> a single Aredos verb can have 570 different forms! AND I've got five
> verbal conjugations!
Woohoo!  Let's hear it for verbs!  Yeah, verbs!  Rah Rah Rah!

Seriously, I love it.  The more forms I can have, the better.  Give me as
many cases and conjugations as you can imagine.  I might not be able to
remember it (well, actually I almost certainly won't remember it), but
I'll love to look at it.  Greek, if I recall, has about that many forms
for its fully inflected verbs, and it still manages to throw in dozens of
devilish irregularities and unpredictable quirks.

Bravo, I say.  Embrace the monster.


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu

"If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are
perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in
frightful danger of seeing it for the first time."
--G.K. Chesterton