Re: Conlangs of mischief (Was: Re: I'm back!)

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:35:35AM +0200, Rodlox wrote:
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>  can you get archived messages from the relay list?  that might give you a
> hint.  :)
I can browse through the archives on the listserv. What keywords
should I search for? :-)

> > I'll start: there is no distinction between 2nd and 3rd person in
> > Ebisédian. This is wonderfully destructive in relays involving
> > conversations (although we haven't had one like that yet---which may
> > be a good thing, depending on your POV). Let's see Metes beat that.
>
>  no word order.
Sorry, Ebisédian has no word order either. In fact, it's much worse
than that. It doesn't require any category of word (verb, noun, etc.)
to be present in a sentence. A sentence consisting wholly of nouns is
perfectly grammatical, as is a sentence consisting wholly of verbs. A
sentence with both verbs and nouns is allowed to omit any of its
nouns without changing the verb. (I.e., not like English, where you
must have a subject for every verb unless you change the verb into a
passive.)

Keep 'em comin'! ;-)


T

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