Re: Using Case to Show Tense

>Damian Yerrick <tepples@...> wrote:
> Perhaps a race of anime characters that got stuck in their chibi forms,
> reproduced, and then had to evolve up from there?
*dies of Chibi Cuteness*

> You could always make the verbs into clitics like S11 ;-)
S11 is cool, and if the maker can endure making so many co-verb
concepts, all the more power to them. I enjoy grammar too much and
phonology/word-making too little to do that though! :-D

Anyways, back to making tommorow's post...

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:33:05 -0500, Damian Yerrick <tepples@...> wrote:
> "Edward Miller" <sewerbird@...> wrote:
> > I wonder how many grammatical items you can express using the same
> > three case markings... *evil laugh*. The main issue lies in the human
> > mind parsing it all >.<
> > I suppose I could always make a conculture made of lilliputians with
> > heads the size of melons?
>
> Perhaps a race of anime characters that got stuck in their chibi forms,
> reproduced, and then had to evolve up from there?
>
> > In ending, I would also appreciate suggestions on introducing aspect
> > into this system: my design goal for the inflectional aspect (pardon
> > the pun) of the language is to indicate as much information about the
> > verb as possible on its nouns, without making the nouns look like
> > Y'upik Eskimo
>
> You could always make the verbs into clitics like S11 ;-)
>
> --
> Damian
>

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