Re: "Roumant", or maybe Narbonósc. Part VII

En réponse à Dan Jones <feuchard@...>:

>
> > (note also the existence of the word comsort /kO~'sOr/:
> > partner which, although grammatically masculine, is semantically
> neutral
> and can
> > be used for both men and women).
>
> I like this!!! How d'you say "my 'comsort' is called ..." in Narbonósc
> (which I think is a very cool name, BTW).
>
in Narbonósc the reflexive verb nônâre-se /no'nars@/: to be called would be used
(like other Romance languages like French and Spanish, the use of the reflexive
pronoun often gives a passive meaning to the verb). So the sentence "My partner
is called..." would be: Meu comsort se nônat... /m2 kO~'sOr s@ 'nona/, with meu
(my, masculine possessee) even if the partner is a woman, as agreement is
grammatical (even if some men would tend to say "ma comsort" instead of "meu
comsort", this kind of agreement "with the meaning" is ungrammatical). Note that
I got the idea of this use of comsort from French, which has a very special
adjective "consort", used nearly only in one case: to refer to the husband or
wife of the leader of a monarchy, whether it is a prince, a king or a queen.
This adjective is so special that it doesn't agree in gender with the noun it
completes (so I think its origin is more a noun in apposition).

By the way, thank you for your compliment about the name of the language. I'll
stick to Narbonósc from now on :) . Or maybe I'll use an Anglicized version
(maybe Narbonish) because I cannot get this stupid ó on a PC AZERTY keyboard
(unless you can give me the ALT sequence that must be used with Windows) and
I'm obliged to do "copy and paste". I don't have this problem with a Mac...

>
> Um, give me some time on that. Currently I'm playing with a Gaelic
> grammar I
> got for Christmas, so Arveuneic has gone on the back burner a bit.
>
He he... I bought for myself the sequel of Zelda on Nintendo 64, so I understand
what you mean :) .

>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> E souvein-te della veritát que se ja dissó,
>                  And remember the truth that once was spoken,
>
> Amer un autre es veder le visaic de Deu.
>         To love anonther person is to see the face of god.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
He he... While I'm writing this post I'm listening to Les Misérables (thanks to
Napster I found lots of MP3's of it :) ).

Christophe.