Re: Things that started life as mistakes, but you like them anyway

Peter Bleackley wrote:
> Does anyone else have a similar experience, where an unintentional slip of
> the mind in language making lead to a feature that you decided to keep?
A few cases like that.  Altho, I can't think of any syntactic features
that owe their origin to that, there are lexical cases.  The verb
"katina" (to write) was originally "kaltina", but I kept dropping the
"l", and I decided to keep that.  Also, I kept putting the writer in the
absolutive case, instead of the ergative.  Eventually, I decided that it
would be an intransitive verb, and that what is written would be marked
with inessive.

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