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

Robert Hailman wrote:

> [...]
>
> > I never came to actually invent morphemes to encode all those cases, but
> > it could of course be done with little problem.
> >
>
> I did, but I wasn't satisfied with the result, so I got rid of them.
>
> <snip - read with fascination>
>
> > So it's a few less than 60, but nevermind.  And it does not even include
> > the famous mysterious Respective case of Quenya.
> >
>
> ??? I don't know much about Quenya. Could you explain this a little?
It is a case which JRRT mentioned in a letter, the so-called "Plotz
Letter" which apparently contained a list of Quenya cases.  This list
included a case named "Respective", but it was not explained, and no-one
knows how it is used.
I found it mentioned on Helge Fauskanger's excellent page about Quenya

http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/quenya.htm

and in Anthony Appleyard's famous TolkLang mailing list post (don't ask
me where it can be found on the Net).

Syld,
Jörg.