Re: New Lang, but Just For Fun

Patrick Dunn wrote:
>
> > Not as pretty as Jennifer's Romance lang, but amusing enough.  Really,
> > though, I harbor a secret desire to make a Romance lang spoken in the
> > east, maybe somewhere between Romania and Russia, so it can use the
> > Cyrillic alphabet.  That would be fun, yeah, it would have lots of
> > Slavic inflences too (read:  retention of case inflection).  Oh well,
> > midterms start tomorrow, and I'd better get to work!
> >
> > Nicole </silly post>
>
> Hmm.  I'm not sure it is so silly.  I really kind of like it, although
> maybe because I know nothing about Japanese and wish that I did.
>
> As far as implausible -- sure, but this is *art*, not science.  Call it a
> "what if": what if Japan had contact with Rome?
Well, I don't know that much about Japanese either, I just have handy
references (read:  friends who know Japanese).  It was actually pretty
convenient to just ask them questions about what would be plausible,
that's where I got the verb system from.  At first I was going to
distribute the verbs into different classes, but it seemed simpler (and
more pidgin-like) to just simplify them into the easiest one.
Christophe, don't you know Japanese?  And I'm sure other people do too.
How do you recommend I do adjectives and adverbs?  What's the Japanese
situation regarding them?

Nicole
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