Re: Test and more.
From: | Daniel Andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, December 21, 1999, 17:57 |
Barry Garcia wrote:
> > > Well, in Saalangal you cannot tell the gender of anyone from the
> > > pronouns. There are no pronouns for he and she, since both are
> > > covered by 'taw' (he/she).
Then Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> In Moten, there are not even pronouns for the third person, but only
> for the first _ga_ and the second _ba_,
Are you guys kidding me!?!? Yesterday I made up
the Laranao pronoun system (which btw is far
too regular to be realistic) and I have
't@' / 'tao' for 3sg and 3pl respectively, 3sg is
both he/she and it ({ao} is a diphthong) and
'be' / 'bao' for 2sg/2pl.
This is freakishly alike Saalangal 3p and
Moten 2p. So, maybe I should change them so 2p is
3p and 3p is 2p. (even though 't@' looks
very much like European 2p (Fr. 'tu' Sw. & Ger. 'du' etc.)
Hmm... well, I think I'd better not change them.
It's better to have them resemble two nice
conlangs imho.
And Barry, I really like your website's layout. Especially
the flowers! :)
Daniel Andreasson | http://make.a.conlang.nu
daniel@conlang.nu | http://rinya.conlang.org
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