Re: Hello? It's working?

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 22:00:21 -0800, Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...>
wrote:

>My name is Christopher Wright.
Hello.

>I'm fifteen and have been interested in
>conlangs for about two years so far. I've been lurking for a few weeks,
>trying to post (thanks, Yoon Ha Lee, for helping me), and I have to say
>that (humor) you're the craziest group of people that I've ever seen
>since I left the institution(/humor).
No. Everybody has passed our local Sanity Test. You're going to have it,
too. Non-conlangers usually can't ;)

[...]
>My first successful language is Sturnan. It's based on Indo-European and
>is largely isolating. I chose a moderately restrictive syllabic style.
>I'm also working on Runda, an even more restrictive inflectional language
>with a small alphabet (13 consonants, 6 vowels; Sturnan has 16 and 7
>respectively). I make words by translating the Bible and the works of
>Shakespeare.
>
>"Esei fus naisei; lar esag a paka, ivus huri a kiras esag vamete nolnei a
>eifkod ak isud eiko thuna len pertin, fus weltei hasnai henti mora penil,
>ak tuldhei suvei len a kata.
>Murtei, sevnei; naimeivas; ak molei sol inas tuldhin had sevna a kirapona
>ak a gelos therom henisi eiko matones dhitemil; esag laisen sur tral
>biselesa.
>Murtei, sevnei; sevnei; ven tusei; sel, alin esag a vula len a merte; di
>len fo sevna murtail dina tusai fan heldei klein inas punsis fe keru
>sunadh deunoth unsa huri inas; alin esag a hendis sol deunan apeno eiko
>makir, feilom veila."
I guess, Sturnan uses some inflexion, though. _-ei_ = infinitive, and
some cases in nouns?


Basilius
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