Re: Language Corruption
| From: | Rhialto <rhialto@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 26, 1999, 19:10 |
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>On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 07:49:32 -0800 Garrett <alkaline@...> writes:
>>Here's my theory: Languages are becoming more corrupted through time.
>>Look
>>at the languages of today - they have all sorts of idiosyncracies,
>>irregularities, idioms, and stuff like that. Look at the ancient
>>languages
>>like Latin or Greek - they may have a bunch of cases and stuff, but at
>>least they're regular, AFAIK.
>>
>>-Garrett Jones aka Alkaline
ok, Greek I never looked at, but Latin...
Letter X - a loan from Greek
the verb to be... sum es est sumus estis sunt
hmm, very regular
and whats with having 4 verb conjugations, plus sundry irregulars? A truly
regular language would have just one conjugation for all verbs.
and how about 5 noun declensions? some of which have multiple declensions
within them!
whats so regular about having grammatical gender for inherently neuter
objects? that is not regular by any rational standard. Its unpredictable and
arbitrary.
No, teh only thing regular about Latin was its metered poetry.
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Rhialto
A country can be judged by the quality of its verbs.