Re: What have I done???!!!!
| From: | D Tse <exponent@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 21, 2001, 10:43 |
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> 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!
In OrCo there are 6 simple tenses, each with a compound (perfect) version, a
brusque and a formal imperative, gerund, past participle and present
participle and an infinitive. That's a total of ... 80 verb forms for one
verb only! Imagine the poor inhabitants of your conworld! Are the forms all
kind of regular?
Imperative
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