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Re: A Survey

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, October 2, 2003, 11:25
En réponse à Nik Taylor :


>Another possibility is to do something like what French does with >_est-ce que_.
I wanted to refer to this possibility in my post, but forgot :(((( . Indeed, your conlang can create its own question particle, and it needn't be exactly the same as in French. A "or no?" at the end of the question or a "is it true that" at the beginning, which loses connection to its original meaning and becomes for speakers a single word, will rapidly become a question particle which will shorten quickly (the same phenomenon happened with French "est-ce que" which was originally a much longer expression but now is just [Esk(@)]). Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.