Re: Rating Languages
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <boud@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 22, 2001, 9:33 |
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On Saturday 22 September 2001 10:58, you wrote:
> I know enough Uatakassi to be able to insult the native speakers. It
> seemed difficult to me for a while, until it all suddenly make sense. This
> is either an ephiphany or an immense moment of dorkiness, depending on how
> you feel about conlanging.
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> "It's just like backwards Japanese," as it was put by the inventor himself,
> nicely sums up the grammar. Verb conjugation isn't really so bad, there's
> trickiness with tense and aspect, and of course it's ergative, but so
> is Hindi in the past perfect tense. :P
I was once able to write letters in Selang - a language that
was supposed to resemble both Indo-European languages and
Etruscan, so I don't think learning conlangs is silly ;-).
Anyway, I should spend some time learning Valdyan, because
that's a language I might actually have real use for, even
if only in an rpg setting.
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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org
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