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Re: Future English

From:Mau Rauszer <maurauser@...>
Date:Sunday, January 19, 2003, 5:13
Zesefde Joe  <joe@...> ta 2003.01.18. her 23:28:31:

> On Saturday 18 January 2003 9:26 pm, Doug Dee wrote: > > There was a thread touching on the future evolution of English, but I've > > lost track of which one it was. > > > > Anyway, I just wanted to suggest that persons interested in that area of > > conlanging should look for _The Dune Encyclopedia_, which has an article > > on > > "Galach," an English-based language of the far future. > > > > There are complicated noun declensions formed by the suffixation of > > pronouns and prefixation of prepositions. > > > > E.g., the "accompanitive" case of the word for "boy" is "gwibwihim" from > > with+boy+him. > > > > > > Doug > > Plausible, I suppose. Accompanitive looks a somwhat strange name, though. > Comitative is the normal term, I believe. If I was going to make up a > prefix > for that, I'd say 'with the boy', would be [wIvOi], |wivoi|. 'with the cat', > [wIG&t], |wighćt|, and 'with the dog' [wIDOg], |widhog|. In case you can't > tell, the prefix |wi-| is applied, and any stop is turned into a voiced > fricative. Fricatives are voiced, and voiced fricatives are left alone. If > the word has an initial vowel, the prefix is |wiv-|.
Reminds me to sindarin lenition somewhat. -- Mau Ábrahám Zsófia alias Mau Rauszer | http://www.hiaqimau.tk | http://www.longwer.tk | "Yú lawe ta mau yibali taqe yamissi qi u neb dagu tawiy iq." -- Kipling