Re: French syntax (was: Italian Particles)

At 11:05 21/04/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Cristof Grãsir ilaécri:
>
>> /la/, showing the object can be put on the verb complex wherever the
>object
>> is (I said in an earlier post that French could be considered as a
>> polysynthetic language, here is an example :) ), and as you see, with
>> slight differences of intonation and sense, absolutely all orders between
>> S, O and V are possible in French.
>
>Has anybody thoght on a posibly orthographic reform of French which reflects
>its polysynthetic nature?
>
It would be nice, I've always thought of something like this. But I highly
doubt that the French Academy will ever accept such an orthography (they
don't even accept to recognize that French has become polysynthetic :) ).

>Let's start with something like:
>/Z/ => <j>
>/e/ => <é>
>/E/ => <è>
>/u/ & /w/ => <u>
>/y/ => <y>
>
>Jdétèst Mari.  Jdétèst Mari mua.  Mua jdétèst Mari.  Mari jladétèst.  Mari
>jladétèst mua.  Jladétèst Mari.  Mua jladétèst Mari.  Jladétèst Mari mua.
>Jladétèst mua Mari.  Mua Mari jladétèst.  Mari mua jladétèst.
>
Interesting... and still recognizable...

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