Re: "To whom"
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 26, 2005, 13:09 |
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* Mark J. Reed said on 2005-01-26 02:43:47 +0100
> I do not agree that a consensus of native speakers, even a unanimous one, is
> the same thing as a "standard". A standard is published. The nice
> thing about standards is that there are many to choose from, of course.
There's de facto standards and then there's de jure standards.
Statistically, where there are both types of standards for the same
thing, the former wins.
Anyway, this is a great opportunity to discuss relative clauses in
conlangs! I still don't know quite how Taruven does it, so please
explain how y'all do it and maybe something will finally shake loose
from my mental tree of linguistic possibilities.
t.