Re: T-Shirt yet again, and Chevraqis revisions

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Sally Caves wrote:
>
> > Double WOW!  Ailly!   I wish I had an easy "Teach Yourself Teonaht"
> > page up there.  The one I put up a year ago is hopelessly outdated
> > now that I've changed the capricious post-clitic indefinite particles.
> > Maybe I should follow something sort of like "Welsh is Fun-tastic" by
> > Heini Gruffydd.
>
> Huh, and I thought the post-clitics were neat.  <wry g>
Well, they've just been slipped back into the archives.  Post clitic
-le may be a feature of some archaic Teonaht, a phase, like the "his
genitive" in the seventeenth century.  Or the abnormal sentence in
Welsh.


>
> I can spot-on answer any questions about the associated *conculture* for
> my current project, but that's because it's on the nth draft of a novel
> that I've been working on for some 7 years (though the current draft has
> no resemblance to most of the n-2 and earlier drafts).
O fortunate person! :-)

>
> > Tell me about your conlang, and you too, Yoon Ha Lee.
>
> Gosh...Teoh's conlang is a lot better developed, and a lot more
> original.  :-p
Everyone says that about their conlang.

Snipped the wonderful technicalities... I love all the infinitives
with their array of aspects!!

I think Chevraqis is extremely complicated--the insulting impersonal,
for instance.  The reportive.

Sally
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