Re: Humbly beg a critique of a role-marking system for my language.

 --- Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>
schrieb:
> Hehe. I have such problems as well. I'll get Payne's
> _Describing Morphosyntax_ for my 18th birthday this
> Thursday I hope :-)
Wha-at? I've been looking for that book for ages!

> I'm jealous! In the local library, the only things I
> found
> that I can use for conlanging are _dtv-Atlas
> Deutsche
> Sprache_ and maybe _Wörter_ by V. Stevenson to learn
> a bit
> more about my native language and the relations
> between the
> indoeuropean langauges. The dtv-Atlas also gives a
> nice
> introducion to several terms that appear here quite
> often.
Well, it's a big honkin' university library, at one of
the better research universities in the US. I found a
book that looked like it was written in Old Church
Slavonic, and I thought 'what the-?!'

God bless the large foreign-language inventory, too.
My German's gotten a bit rusty (I've learned all I can
from 'Lola Rennt'; I must move on). I read Kafka's
'Das Schloss' a few days ago, but didn't finish it,
because that's a fairly good-sized book, and my
reading speed in German is about a third of what it is
in English.

Übung macht den Meister...

Also, I've recently had the strong impulse to learn
Japanese (a lot of Japanese single women on campus
;-D). I'm tired of Indo-European languages; I want
something _challenging_.

>  > It's good to be back.
>
> So welcome back.
Danke schön :).

=====
"Alle Idole müssen sterben."
"All idols must die."

--Einstürzende Neubauten, "Seele Brennt" (Soul is on Fire)

"Where am I? What is this thing called 'the world'? Who is it who has lured me into
the thing, and now leaves me here? How did I come into the world? Why was I not
consulted?"

--Søren Kierkegaard

"You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need
not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and
solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no
choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."

--Franz Kafka, Journals


	

	
		
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