Re: Question about starting

Den 19. nov. 2008 kl. 22.37 skreiv Bookworm Alpha:

> Some folks who saw that initial word accused me of using Norwegian as
> my language's base, but that is not the case at all.
I have to ask: You don't happen to be Norwegian yourself, do you?

> In fact, the
> concept is that the language is a so-called "superlanguage" that
> encompasses concepts from nearly all the major Terran language groups.
> This language is being devised for a series of fiction novels I'm in
> the process of writing. Approximately sixteen words are relatively
> firm, but (strangely) the form of pluralization is not certain. (one
> word, Eldaren, is both plural and singular, but it seems to be an
> exception rather than the rule.)

This is a famous feature of Norwegian as well, nouns that are the
same in plural and singular, mainly the neuter ones.

Anyway, welcome to the list. It's a fun place, and an enormous,
sometimes overwhelming, storehouse of knowledge. Do you plan to keep
your anonymity for long?

LEF

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