Re: Grandsire's Fluency wish-list
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 21, 2000, 17:53 |
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From: Jonathan Chang <Zhang2323@...>
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU <CONLANG@...>
Date: Friday, April 21, 2000 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: Grandsire's Fluency wish-list
> Bahasa Indonesia is another very poetically lush language. I like the
>simple grammar of everyday Bahasa & the way non-numerical pluralization is
>done simply by repeating a word twice (it probably cuts down on verbal
>confusion but printing must cut down more trees). I am learning more
Bahasa
>Indonesia in-depth after I finish creating Synthrax, my conlang.
>
> zHANg, lingua-Verfremdungseffektor
Sad to say, Indonesia is cutting down trees as fast as they can, tho not for
books. Anyhow, only pedants write the reduplicated forms in full , everyone
else uses a superscript 2-- kursi2, makan2, ber-jalan2 etc. Very sensible.
On analogy of anak 'child' > anak2an 'doll', kuda 'horse' > kuda2an 'toy
horse', toy piano possibly: piano2an.