Re: reformed English Grammar, by me.

Sounds like a fun idea, but:

Are theys pronounced like yous'd expect from English inflections? (What's
a `voative'?)

fA:D@z or fA:D@r@z
fA:D@m or fA:D@r@m
jO: or ju@

(Note that I'm non-rhotic, but it shouldn't be too hard to think of this
in a rhotic fashion.)

Tristan

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Joe Hill wrote:

> My reformed english grammar adds case into english.  The cases I have chosen
> are the original 8 PIE cases.
>
> The cases are formed by extending the root english word with a suffix.  If
> the word ends with a vowel, then the vowel in the suffix is dropped, if it
> ends with the suffix,then the suffix is dropeed.
>
> Roots: "father, you"
>
> Nominative : -es "fatheres, yous"
> Accusative: -em "fatherem, youm"
> Genitive: -er "father, your"
> Dative: -ed "fathered, youd"
> Ablative: -eb "fathereb, youb"
> Locative: -en "fatheren, youn"
> Vocative: -o "fathero, you"
> Instrumental: -ev "fatherev, youv"
>
> Plurals:
> All cases apart from nominative, and voatives with the root ending in a
> vowel. Inflect plurals with -s
>
> Nominative plural: -esen "fatheresen, yousen"
>
> Vocatives inflect with an -s, but take the last vowel sound out of the root.
> "yos"
>
> And now, a babel text.
>
> Now the whole Worldes had one languagem and one common speechem.  As manesen
> moved eastward, theys found a plainem Shinaren.  Theys said to each otherem,
> "Come, let ims make brickems, and bake them throughly."
> So theys used brickems stoneds, and bitumenem mortared.  Then theys said
> "come, let ims build myselfeds a citem, with a towerem which reaches the
> heavenems, so that isen may make a namem myselfeds and not be scattered over
> the earthem. But the Lordes came down to see the citem, and the towerem that
> the manesen were building.  The Lordes said "if as one peoplem, speaking the
> same languagem, theys have begun to do thisem, then nothing theys plan to do
> will be impossible for theym. Come, let ims go down and confuse theyr
> langugem so theys will not understand each otherem."  So the Lordes
> scattered theym from therem over all the earthem, and theym stopped building
> the citem.  thates is why that places is called Babel, because the lordes
> confused the languagem of the whole worldem theren. thereb the Lordes
> scattered theym over the face of the whole Earthem.
>
> I'll post an interlinear if anyone needs it. Oh, and if anyone has a nice
> regular orthography, could they put it into their Orthography.  Thanks.
>

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