Re: OT: Dvorak keyboard layout

En réponse à Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>:

>
> That's easy.  In proto-Maggel, there was a word *tansa
> "characteristic,
> idiom".  A 1st person plural possessive ending was added, *-wo; followed
> by
> an ending putting it in the class of nouns of spoken and airy things,
> *-he.
> Then an adjectival prefix was added, *fid-.  The result?  *fidtansawohe
> >
> fdtnsaohe
>
LOL! Proto-Maggel must have been very different from Maggel since Maggel has
possessive prefixes, no noun classes (but noun genders recognised by the way
they form their different numbers) and it tends to derived nouns from
adjectives rather than the contrary ;))) . But I like it! And now are you going
to explain the phonological changes which reached to fdtnsaohe pronounced
[dZi:]? ;))))

> Of course, even in proto-Maggel, where such words could easily be
> derived,
> the affixes depended greatly on which class the root word belonged to,
> using
> different forms for the (frequent) irregulars.
>
LOL. That must be ;)) .

Christophe.

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