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Re: Question about starting

From:Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...>
Date:Thursday, November 20, 2008, 1:59
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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