Re: R: Re: Language uploaded, finally...

> [snip]  Perhaps "na" and "nu" could be switched with
> something else that sounds less pleasant, as is suggested?
I could, I guess... I'd never really thought of "na" & "nu" as sounding
especially pleasant... "Nu" to me sounds like what you say when someone
punches you in the stomach.  (Ihro "u" being the same as the "ou" in "could".
On a related topic, does anyone know where I can find some audio recordings of
the IPA symbols' sounds?)  But Na & and Nu are not just random syllables. They're
the modern decendants of Proto-Ihric's 2p-inanimate-ergative-plural and
2p-inanimate-oblique-plural pronouns.

>  It's a nice
> idea, poetic too.  (The inanimate 2nd person appeals to me especially
> since I'm dealing with a conscript that embodies somewhat animistic
> ideas, though that's completely irrelevant to the discussion here.  <G>)
>
> YHL
The poetic use is encountered more often than the insulting use.


Andy

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