Re: Hello? It's working?

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 13:08:26 -0500, Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> wrote:

>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 ;)
It's a good thing I'm so skillful as a sociopath. (Please note that I will
feign many things, enormous ego and humor among them.)

>
>I guess, Sturnan uses some inflexion, though. _-ei_ = infinitive, and
>some cases in nouns?
Of course. You should never try to make a language completely isolating,
agglutinating, or inflectional; it's just weird, and it isn't practical for
any but isolation. Really, the only inflections are plural (-i or -d),
singular genetive (-el), and plural genetive (-il).

Christophero Sly
"I'm just a drunkard! Why are you calling me 'milord' and telling me about
my lady wife?"