Re: polysynthetic languages

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> En réponse à Christian Thalmann :
>
>
> >So "est" is the 1sg form nowadays?  ;-)
>
> LOL, not only a mistake of person, but a mistake of verb! The correct form
> should be "ai" of course. That's what you get with homophones and somebody
> who doesn't pay attention to what he's writing :))) . And not using French
> often lately probably doesn't help ;)) .
English, French, Swedish etc. never cease to amaze me with how evil their
orthographies can be. It'd be a sick and twisted person that designed an
orthography that bad. But then, we're the best kind, aren't we? :)

(Yeah, sure, French and Swedish are relatively regular compared to
English, or so I understand, but you compare them to most conlangs...)

--
Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still
be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
                -- Snoopy

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