Re: CHAT: Dwarfs/dwarves (was Re: The pitfall of Chinese/Mandarin)
| From: | Y.Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 14, 2001, 10:35 |
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Oops, previously I've forgotten to change the encoding... It lost my
darling årund :-(
Så, Thomas R. Wier wråt:
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Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 10:51 AM
> Quoting "Y.Penzev" <isaacp@...>:
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> > I hope nobody would be offended if I make a conlang based on Old
> > English...
> > (?)
>
> Who would be offended, except for those who object to
> conlanging in general? Go ahead -- I'd be interested in
> seeing what you come up with.
The most general idea was like this: What could happen to OE, if England
had NOT been conquered by Normans, but survived up to nowadays WITHOUT
'Frenssh' influence. Maybe it even conquered France lately...
Så, main features: preservation of OE vocabulary, minimal Romance influence
(maybe except of some bookish and ecclesiastic words), new words are coined
of native material. The grammar system undergone certain simplifications
(e.g. losing much of declension), staying on the stage of "levelled
endings". And surely NO GVS !!! I HATE the Great Vowel Shift !!!
Yitzik
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"Ðe Drihten is myn hirde, ic scall næden naght"
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