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Re: YAC: a couple of questions

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 27, 2000, 19:38
At 21:02 2000-12-24 +0100, Mangiat wrote:
>1) Since I don't like things as Latin 'consulibus illustribus', where the >desinence -ibus is redondant and baroque, I'd like to avoid these >allitterative processes which can be engendered by case endings.
You might do as in Basque, where it is nominal phrases, not words which take case endings. I guess some ambiguity might arise from this, but probably not more than can be disambiguated by context. /BP 8^)> -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:bpX@netg.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Melarocco\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine__ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angelmiel\ \______/ /ah/ /_adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Cuinondil~~~\________/~~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda cuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)