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Re: Future English

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Saturday, January 18, 2003, 23:07
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], |wighæt|, 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-|. ie. kæt 'cat' -> wighæt dog 'dog' -> widhog boi 'boy' -> wivoi thing 'thing' -> widhing ænimæl 'animal' -> wivænimæl Of course, that is ignoring phonological changes in the intervening time...