Re: OT: Official language post
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 1, 2003, 21:01 |
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En réponse à John Cowan <cowan@...>:
>
> That's because Dutch is simple, easy, and obvious (until you get kicked
> in
> the head by some lexeme like "opstanding", the meaning of which nobody
> would
> ever guess),
And until you come to the little "particles" which keep provoking me, or to the
strange transformations groups "preposition+neuter 3rd person pronoun or
demonstrative" can undergo ;)) (For instance, in "Daar heb ik zin in": "I'm
feeling like having that", "daar", which normally means "there" here
means "that" and is actually the complement of the preposition "in"!!! In
short, the group "in+dat" - "dat" being "that" of course - became "daarin" -
normal behaviour, see the fossilized form "therein" in English - which in turn
was cut and the whole sentence was put between the two parts! Still dare say
that Dutch is simple and obvious?! ;))) ).
whereas Swedish is the province of Inscrutable Nordics
> who
> decided to make themselves even more inscrutable than before. Face
> it,
> North Germanic is *weird*.
>
I find Dutch weird enough to my taste :)) . The behaviour of prepositional
groups is gonna find its way in Maggel by the way :)) .
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.
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