Re: DOS (was Re: Re Robot); conlangs with LOTS of cases

Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
>
> No, it is Denial Of Service.
>
LOL! Never heard that one before!.

> ObConlang:
>
> What is the largest number of cases you ever built into one of your
> languages?
> Or the largest number of cases you ever heard of being used in any
> language, natural or constructed?
>
> I once made a brain-storming to invent as many cases as I could come up
> with, and found some 60 or so; most of them, however, were local cases
> built by the means of an NEC-style "case construction kit".  (North-east
> Caucasian languages tend to have quite many local cases, marked with
> bimorphemic suffixes composed of one suffix picked from an "in, above,
> below, near, ..." series and one from an "to, from, at, around, ..."
> series.)
>
> I haven't yet built a conlang using all those cases, though.  But I feel
> that I'll just *have to* one day!
>
Ajuk, in it's very first incarnation, had 22, most of them being local
cases, as in your case. I toned it down to seven very quickly. 60 seems
like a very high number.

--
Robert