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Re: The Great Sundering (was Re: basic morphemes of a loglang)

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Saturday, November 29, 2003, 3:56
--- Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
scrievit:

> To pick just one nice feature: the way gendered > words are formed > from gender-neutral words by changing the final > vowels, e.g. > _doktore_ (common), _doktoro_ (male), _doktora_ > (female). > I use such a system in Q (my artlang; and with > the same vowels, > except that /a/ is common gender and /o/ male).
Interesting! I also found it curious that colloquial Spanish is starting to do the same thing, especially in the plural it seems: niñas, niños, niñes. Kerno solved the problem by promoting 'ce'/ 'ces', an indefinite particle to full article status: il methycks, la methycca, ce methyces. Padraic. ===== la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu. -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .